This episode delves into the extraordinary life of reparations advocate Callie House. Despite her status as a former slave, a woman, and a widower with five children, Callie House defied societal conventions and led the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association, one of the largest grassroots movements in African American history. House tirelessly traveled the country organizing newly freed African Americans in the quest to right the wrongs of slavery.
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Mary Frances Berry is the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought, History and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of My Face Is Black Is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations.
Tiffany Patterson is an associate professor of African American and diaspora studies, associate professor of history, and the director of undergraduate studies in African American and diaspora studies at Vanderbilt University.
Lana Ulrich is In-House Counsel at the National Constitution Center.
- Excerpt from My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances Berry
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