My Face Is Black Is True

✍ Scribed by Berry, Mary Frances

• Book ID: 109800992
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 6 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780307538710

✦ Synopsis

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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