My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Cover:Paperback tying her past to her

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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Cover:Paperback tying her past to herAcclaimed 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