My face is black is true : Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations /

My face is black is true : Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations / Mary Frances Berry.

Historian Berry resurrects the forgotten life of courageous pioneering activist 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 slavery in 1861 and...

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Main Author: Berry, Mary Frances.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
House, Callie, > 1861-1928.
African American women political activists > Biography.
Women political activists > United States > Biography.
African Americans > Reparations.

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Call Number: E185.97.H825 B47 2005
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