Historian Mary Frances Berry tells the story of an ex-slave who demanded pension rights and reparations from the US Congress.
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2006-01-16/civil-rights-38-first-request-slave-reparations-rebroadcast
Civil Rights & the First Request for Slave Reparations (Rebroadcast)
Listen Monday, Jan. 16, 2006 at 12:06 p.m. in Politics, Society
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Mary Frances Berry
former Chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; and author of "My Face is Black is True: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations" (Random House)
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