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Autore: | Biddle Daniel R |
Titolo: | Tasting freedom [[electronic resource] ] : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin |
Pubblicazione: | Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (630 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.092 |
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Soggetto topico: | Free African Americans - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia |
African American political activists - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia | |
African American teachers - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia | |
African American baseball players - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia | |
African Americans - Civil rights - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century | |
Civil rights movements - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century | |
Racism - Pennsylvania - Philadelphia - History - 19th century | |
Soggetto geografico: | Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations History 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Altri autori: | DubinMurray |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Tasting freedom |
ISBN: | 1-59213-467-X |
1-59213-465-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910452489403321 |
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