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Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin.

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Chronicles the life of African-American educator, intellectual, and civil rights leader Octavius Valentine Catto, who was shot and killed in election-day violence in Philadelphia in 1871.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biddle, Daniel R.
Other Authors: Dubin, Murray
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Catto, Octavius V., > 1839-1871.
Free African Americans > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African American political activists > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African American teachers > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African American baseball players > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Biography.
African Americans > Civil rights > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Civil rights movements > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
McMullen, William, > 1824-1901.
Racism > Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > History > 19th century.
Philadelphia (Pa.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "A hundred O.V. Cattos"
  • Charleston
  • Arm in arm
  • "Keep the flame burning-- "
  • With giants
  • Lessons
  • The Irish, the killers, and Squire McMullen
  • "Arise, young North"
  • "How much I yearn to be a man"
  • A chance on the pavement
  • The wolf killers
  • Manhood
  • The battle for streetcars
  • Baseball
  • The hide of the rhinoceros
  • Election day
  • The Venus of the high trapeze
  • Epilogue: The legacy.

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