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Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Biddle, Daniel R.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Free African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- Free African Americans.
- African American political activists--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- African American political activists.
- African American teachers--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- African American teachers.
- African American baseball players--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Biography.
- African American baseball players.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- African Americans.
- Civil rights movements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- Racism--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--19th century.
- Racism.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Race relations--History--19th century.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Catto, Octavius V., 1839-1871.
- Catto, Octavius V.
- McMullen, William, 1824-1901.
- McMullen, William.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (630 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and Birmingham. In Tasting Freedom Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this charismatic black leader-a "free" black whose freedom was i
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Introduction: "A Hundred O. V. Cattos"; 1. Charleston; 2. Arm in Arm; 3. ""Keep the Flame Burning...""; 4. With Giants; 5. Lessons; 6. The Irish, the Killers, and Squire McMullen; 7. ""Arise, Young North""; 8. ""How Much I Yearn to Be a Man""; 9. A Chance on the Pavement; 10. The Wolf Killers; 11. Manhood; 12. The Battle for the Streetcars; 13. Baseball; 14. The Hide of the Rhinoceros; 15. Election Day; 16. The Venus of the High Trapeze; Epilogue: The Legacy; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781592134670
- 159213467X
- 9781592134656
- 1592134653
- OCLC:
- 650495418
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