Callie House and Isaiah Dickerson organize the National Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1894. Callie House and her organization faced opposition from both African American leaders and government officials. an all-male, white jury convicted Callie House on the charge of mail fraud, resulting in a sentence of a year and one day. She served her sentence in the Jefferson City, Missouri, penitentiary from November 1917 to August 1, 1918.