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100 1  Berry, Mary Frances.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names
       /n50007567 
245 10 My face is black is true :|bCallie House and the struggle 
       for ex-slave reparations /|cMary Frances Berry. 
250    1st ed. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2005. 
300    xiv, 314 pages :|billustrations ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "This is a Borzoi Book"--T.p. verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-295) and 
       index. 
520    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 $1.2 billion in 2005 dollars) 
       and demanding it as repayment for centuries of unpaid 
       labor. The Justice Department banned the activities of her
       town organizers 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. Though African-American newspapers, most
       of which preached meekness toward whites, ignored or 
       derided Mrs. House's Ex-Slave Association, the movement 
       flourished until she was imprisoned; deprived of her 
       spirit, leadership and ferocity, the first national 
       grassroots African-American movement fell apart.--From 
       publisher description. 
600 10 House, Callie,|d1861-1928.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities
       /names/n2004045350 
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650  0 African American women political activists|0https://
       id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96001748|vBiography.
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650  0 Women political activists|zUnited States|vBiography.
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650  0 African Americans|xReparations.|0https://id.loc.gov/
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651  7 United States.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1204155
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