My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations |
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| Authors: | Berry, Mary Frances |
| Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
| BISAC/Subject: | BIO002000, BIO022000, HIS056000 |
| ISBN: | 9780307538710, Related ISBNs: 0307277054, 0307538710, 1400040035, 9780307277053, 9780307538710 |
| Classification: | Non-Fiction |
| Number of pages: | 336, |
| Audience: | General/trade |
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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