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

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

ISBN-10: 0307277054

ISBN-13: 9780307277053

Edition: N/A

Authors: Mary Frances Berry

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“My face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest dealing with my fellow man.” –Callie House (1899) In this groundbreaking book, acclaimed historian Dr. Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House (1861-1928) who, seventy years before the civil-rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House 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…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/10/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.26" wide x 7.97" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue



We Need a Movement



Organizing the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association



The Association Under Attack



Voices of the Ex-Slaves



The Movement Fights Back



Avoiding Destruction



The Association Goes to Federal Court



Jailed for Justice



Passing the Torch


Epilogue: The Reparations Movement Still Lives


Notes