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100 1 $aBerry, Mary Frances.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50007567
245 10 $aMy face is black is true :$bCallie House and the struggle for ex-slave reparations /$cMary Frances Berry.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bAlfred A. Knopf,$c2005.
300 $axiv, 314 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-295) and index.
520 1 $a"Mary Francis Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washer woman 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. In a brilliant and daring move, House targeted $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton (over $1.2 billion in 2005 dollars) and demanded it as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor." "Dr. Berry tells how the Justice Department, persuaded by the postmaster general, banned the activities of Callie Houses's town organizers, violated her constitutional rights to assemble and to petition Congress, and falsely accused her of mail fraud; the federal officials had the post office open the mail of almost all African-Americans, denying delivery on the smallest pretext. Berry shows how African-American newspapers, most of which preached meekness toward whites, systematically ignored or derided Mrs. House's movement, which was essentially a poor person's movement. Despite being denied mail service and support from the African-American establishment of the day, Mrs. House's Ex-Slave Association flourished until she was imprisoned by the Justice Department for violating the postal laws of the United States; suddenly deprived of her spirit, leadership, and ferocity, the first national grassroots African-American movement fell apart."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aHouse, Callie,$d1861-1928.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004045350
650 0 $aAfrican American women political activists$vBiography.
650 0 $aWomen political activists$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118896
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xReparations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh00010105
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