My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Mary Frances Berry$14.41
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Acclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, demanded reparations for ex-slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861-1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist, a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/10/2006
ISBN: 9780307277053
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.32w x 0.68d
Review Citations: Kliatt 03/01/2007 pg. 38