Callie House

Callie House is most famous for her efforts to gain reparations for former slaves and is regarded as the early leader of the reparations movement among American Freedmen political activists. 

With the help of Isaiah Dickerson, House chartered the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1898 and became the leader of the organization. In this position, she traveled across the South, spreading the idea of reparations in every former slave state with relentless zeal. During her 1897-1899 lecture tour, the association’s membership grew to 34,000. By 1900, its nationwide membership was estimated to be around 300,000.

Callie House was born around 1861 and died from cancer in Nashville, Tennessee, on June 6, 1928, at the age of 67. House's zealous spirit guides us in our current fight for collecting our reparations debt from the United States of America.