FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, OCTOBER 2006
Copyright © 2005 by Mary Frances Berry
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a division of
Random House, Inc., New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada
Limited, Toronto.
Vintage and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Knopf edition as follows:
Berry, Mary Frances.
My face is black is true: Callie House and the struggle for ex-slave
reparations / Mary Frances Berry. —1st ed.
p. cm.
1. House, Callie, 1861—1928. 2. African American women political activists—
Biography. 3. Women political activists—United States—Biography.
4. African Americans—Reparations. I. Title.
E185.97.H825B47 2005
323’.092—dc22
[B] 2004051330
eISBN: 978-0-307-53871-0
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