My Face Is Black Is True

My Face Is Black Is True
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 336
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ISBN-10 : 0307538710
ISBN-13 : 9780307538710
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Book Synopsis My Face Is Black Is True by : Mary Frances Berry

Download or read book My Face Is Black Is True written by Mary Frances Berry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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