My face is black is true / Berry, Mary Frances

Presents the life of Callie House, a former slave and mother of five who still had time to demand ex-slave reparations. Focuses on how the Justice Department curtailed the activities of the Callie House organizers, and gravely violated her constitutional rights. She was also accused of mail fraud and was denied support by African-American newspapers.

Examines the life of Callie House, a woman who was born into slavery in 1861 and later became a laundress in Nashville, focusing on her demand that the U.S. government pay pensions to ex-slaves for centuries of unpaid labor, and discussing the efforts of the Justice Department to stop House and her followers.