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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.
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
