Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America
by
Daniel R. Biddle, Murray Dubin
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2010
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...