| My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Contributor(s): Berry, Mary Frances (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307277054 ISBN-13: 9780307277053 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2006 Annotation: In this groundbreaking book, an acclaimed historian resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, 70 years before the Civil Rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist and a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - General - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.68" H x 5.32" W x 7.98" (0.69 lbs) 336 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |