My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations (Vintage)
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| Management number | 237217672 | Release Date | 2026/07/10 | List Price | US$5.92 | Model Number | 237217672 | ||
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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 (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. Read more
| ASIN | 0307277054 |
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| ISBN10 | 9780307277053 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0307277053 |
| Edition | Reprint edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Vintage |
| Dimensions | 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.68 inches |
| Item Weight | 11.2 ounces |
| Print length | 314 pages |
| Publication date | October 10, 2006 |
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