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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.
ASIN : 0307277054
Publisher : Vintage; Reprint edition (October 10, 2006)
Language : English
Paperback : 314 pages
ISBN-10 : 9780307277053
ISBN-13 : 978-0307277053
Item Weight : 11.2 ounces
Dimensions : 7.98 x 5.32 x 0.68 inches
