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

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

Mary Frances Berry

314 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history race challenging informative inspiring slow-paced
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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 (186...

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