My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations William - Relations with Indians Based on ten years of

Based on ten years of writing and reporting on the sex trade

In this fascinating book

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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations William - Relations with Indians Based on ten years ofAuthor Contributor(s): Berry, Mary Frances Publisher: Vintage Date: 10 10 2006 Binding: Paperback Condition: NEW 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