She Took Justice proves the Black Woman liberated herself. Readers go on a journey from the invasion of Africa into the Colonial period and the Civil Rights Movement.

Gloria J. Browne-Marshall is a writer, civil rights attorney, playwright, and Professor of Constitutional Law at John Jay College (CUNY). Gloria taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College. Prior to academia, she litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center, Community Legal Services, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. She is the author of Race, Law, and American Society: 1607 to Present, The Voting Rights War, and The Constitution: Major Cases and Conflicts. Gloria is the recipient of a Pulitzer Center Grant and Frederick Lewis Allen Fellowship.

Acknowledgments; Timeline of Selected Cases and Events; Prelude; 1. We Were Queens; 2. Her Bondage; 3. Trials and Tribulations; 4. Female Fugitives; 5. Slaves in Court; 6. Segregated Freedom; 7. Lynched, Raped, and Violated; 8. Her Mind Matters; 9. Politics of Freedom; 10. A Force for Good; 11. She Is an Activist; 12. Sankofa; Table of Cases; Bibliography; Index