My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations

Historian Berry resurrects the forgotten life of courageous pioneering activist Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. House was born into slavery in 1861 and...

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1. Verfasser: Berry, Mary Frances (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Knopf 2005
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:A Borzoi book
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Zusammenfassung:Historian Berry resurrects the forgotten life of courageous pioneering activist Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. House was born into slavery in 1861 and sought African-American pensions based on those offered Union soldiers, targeting taxes on seized rebel cotton (over
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIV, 314 S. Ill.
ISBN:1400040035

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