[PDF.56kv] 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

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 | #971149 in Books |  Berry, Mary Frances |  2006-10-10 |  2006-10-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.90 x5.25l,.69 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| It is very sad that the majority of African Americans have never heard ...|By Norene|Wow, this book was very shocking! I never heard of this woman before. It is very sad that the majority of African Americans have never heard of her. I truly have an understanding of reparations , and know that the Aftican American will never be accepted as human beings in America. This book|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . The African-American struggle for compensation for years of unpaid labor began at the dawn of emancipation. In this account of "the first mass reparations movement led by African Americans," historian and lawyer Berry (The Pi

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. H...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations   |  Mary Frances Berry.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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