Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America - Couverture souple

Biddle, Daniel R.; Dubin, Murray

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ISBN 10 : 1592134661 ISBN 13 : 9781592134663

Editeur : Temple University Press,U.S., 2017

Synopsis

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 in name only. Born in the American south, where slavery permeated everyday life, he moved north where he joined the fight to be truly free--free to vote, go to school, ride on streetcars, play baseball and even participate in July 4th celebrations.

Catto electrified a biracial audience in 1864 when he proclaimed, "There must come a change," calling on free men and women to act and educate the newly freed slaves. With a group of other African Americans who called themselves a "band of brothers," they challenged one injustice after another. Tasting Freedom presents the little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel R. Biddle, the Philadelphia Inquirer's Pennsylvania editor, has worked in nearly every phase of newspaper reporting and editing. His investigative stories on the courts won a Pulitzer Prize and other national awards. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Murray Dubin, author of South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories and the Melrose Diner, was a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for 34 years before leaving the newspaper in 2005.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Temple University Press,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1592134661
• ISBN 13: 9781592134663
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 632
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible