9780307277053-0307277054-My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (ISBN-13: 9780307277053 and ISBN-10: 0307277054), written by authors Mary Frances Berry, was published by Vintage in 2006. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Black & African American (Cultural & Regional, Women, Specific Groups, United States, Historical, Social Activists, Leaders & Notable People, Black & African Americans, United States History, Slavery & Emancipation, World History, Women in History, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law) books. You can easily purchase or rent My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Black & African American books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.16.

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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.

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