My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Historical Books and its trademark wit

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ISBN13: 9780974858104 ISBN10: 0974858102 Material Type: paperback

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Historical Books and its trademark witMy face is black is true but its not my fault but I love my name and my honest in dealing with my fellow man. ~Callie House (1899) In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861 1928), ex slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex slave reparations. House was born into