My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Cover:Paperback selling lemonade and limeade--and also

selling lemonade and limeade--and also lemon-limeade

The dragon's out of the bag in this diverse

tying her past to her present and future

But when these three Black first graders stepped into the all-white McDonogh No

My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations Cover:Paperback selling lemonade and limeade--and alsoAcclaimed historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the remarkable story of ex slave Callie House who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, demanded reparations for ex slaves. A widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five, House (1861 1928) went on to fight for African American pensions based on those offered to Union soldiers, brilliantly targeting $68 million in taxes on seized rebel cotton and demanding it as repayment for centuries