My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

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My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations

In this groundbreaking book, an acclaimed historian resurrects the remarkable story of ex-slave Callie House who, 70 years before the Civil Rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations. Here is the fascinating story of a forgotten civil rights crusader: a woman who emerges as a courageous pioneering activist and a forerunner of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.