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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 and “Tasting Freedom and ” Murray Dubin and Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Biddle painstakingly chronicle the life of this charismatic black leader – a and “free and ” 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, and “There must come a change, and ” 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 and “band of brothers, and ” they challenged one injustice after another. and “Tasting Freedom and ” presents the little-known stories of Catto and the men and women who struggled to change America.