My Face Is Black Is True - by Mary Frances Berry (Paperback)

Callie House's Courageous Crusade for Reparations is a groundbreaking book that resurrects the remarkable story of an acclaimed historian, Mary Frances Berry, who brings to light the forgotten civil rights crusader, Callie House.

This book tells the fascinating tale of a widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who demanded reparations for ex-slaves seventy years before the Civil Rights movement.

Callie House's fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers is brilliantly targeted, with $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton being demanded as repayment for centuries of unpaid labor.

This book provides an eye-opening and well-crafted account of the reparations struggle in an era when 2 million ex-slaves were still alive.

Authentic and essential, Callie House's Courageous Crusade for Reparations is a must-read for history lovers and anyone seeking to understand the importance of this forgotten civil rights crusader and her cause.