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My Face Is Black Is True

Download or Read eBook My Face Is Black Is True PDF written by Mary Frances Berry and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
My Face Is Black Is True
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 338
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ISBN-10 : 9780307277053
ISBN-13 : 0307277054
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Book Synopsis My Face Is Black Is True by : Mary Frances Berry

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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