My Face Is Black Is True
Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
Nonfiction, History, Military, Biography & Memoir
| Author: | Mary Frances Berry | ISBN: | 9780307538710 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | Publication: | July 16, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Vintage | Language: | English |
| Author: | Mary Frances Berry |
| ISBN: | 9780307538710 |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| Publication: | July 16, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Vintage |
| Language: | English |
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.
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.
