Statom, Virgil E. | Tennessee Encyclopedia

Statom, Virgil E.Randal Rust2017-11-11T14:45:10+00:00

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Born in 1861 into slaveholding Rutherford County, Callie Guy, later known as Callie House, was a pioneering African American political activist who campaigned for slave reparations in the burgeoning Jim Crow-era American South. In her youth, Callie House lived with…