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Mary Ann Shadd Cary spent her entire lifetime fighting for justice and equality for African Americans. Born a free African American in the 1820s, Cary started schools for black children and wrote books and articles. She was also the first black woman to publish a weekly newspaper and to enter law school. Never afraid of offending anyone, Cary demanded justice for herself and for her fellow African Americans.

Mary Church Terrell grew up after the Civil War with many opportunities. Although she received an excellent education and had a distinguished teaching career, Mary grew up African American in a segregated country. There were opportunities she did not have. Always determined, she joined the fight for equal rights. By lecturing, picketing, and writing she made her voice be heard and helped to end segregation.

In her classic book, The Game of Life and How to Play It, author Florence Scovel Shinn shows how we receive back what we put into the world through our actions, energy, and attitudes. In author James Allen’s most famous title, As a Man Thinketh, he explains how, in his own thought world, each man holds the key to every condition, good or bad, that enters into his life, and that, by working patiently and intelligently upon his thoughts, he may remake his life, and transform his circumstances.

Set in America’s rough-and-tumble capital, where high-powered lawyers eat their foes for breakfast and their friends for lunch, this subversive satire spills the secrets of BigLaw and explores race, gender, and class in the rarefied but ruthless world of white-shoe law. Brilliant and beautiful, Violet’s a Black attorney who’s parlayed hard luck into good luck. She’s up for partner at a premier litigation firm. To succeed, Violet must maintain her near-spotless record. But Violet stumbles, and her personal and professional lives collide.