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Author Biddle, Daniel R.

Title Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin
Published Philadelphia : Temple University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 616 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Summary The life and times of the extraordinary Octavius Catto, and the first civil rights movement in America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 569-602) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Catto, Octavius V., 1839-1871.
McMullen, William, 1824-1901.
SUBJECT Catto, Octavius V., 1839-1871 fast
McMullen, William, 1824-1901 fast
Subject 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
Racism -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History -- 19th century
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
African American baseball players
African American political activists
African American teachers
African Americans -- Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Free African Americans
Race relations
Racism
SUBJECT Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century
Subject Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Dubin, Murray.
LC no. 2009049276
ISBN 9781592134670
159213467X
1592134653
9781592134656