The story of Callie House and her efforts to organize Black Americans for reparations. Beginning in the 1800s, the reparations movement started with Mrs. Callie House, who led the National Ex-Slave ...

I’m in the throes of reading Mary Frances Berry’s biography of Callie House, a 19th century ex-slave and washerwoman from Nashville, Tennessee, who helped lead the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, ...

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. Callie House is a name unfamiliar to most. It shouldn’t be. House is the ...

The U.S. government imprisoned a former slave and pioneering civil rights activist named Callie House in 1917 on bogus federal mail fraud charges. A group of modern scholars and civil rights activists ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Away from the swings and slides at the William Edmondson Homesite Park & Gardens is where you’ll find Mark Schlicher honoring Edgehill’s heroes. As a member of the Friends of ...

OPINION: Last week, two Harvard professors filed a petition with President Joe Biden seeking a pardon for the civil rights icon, who was convicted of mail fraud in 1917. Editor’s note: The following ...