My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-slave Reparations
Ebony, Jan, 2006
In MY FACE IS BLACK IS TRUE: CALLIE HOUSE AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EXSLAVE REPARATIONS (Alfred A. Knopf, $26.95), Mary Frances Berry breathes new life into Callie House, whose courage, determination and leadership took the slave reparations movement as far as the U.S. Supreme Court in this biography.
Berry, a former commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, is the Geraldine R. Segal professor of American Social Thought at the University of Pennsylvania, where she teaches history and law.
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