Callie Guy House (1861 to 1928) led a movement for reparations for formerly enslaved people. She was born into slavery in 1861 in Rutherford County. She eventually became head of the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty and Pension Association which was chartered in 1898.
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