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Lincoln University – Lincoln University welcomes Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin, on Tuesday, March 20, at 4 p.m. in Dickey Hall Auditorium to present a lecture and discussion about their book, Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America. The event is followed by a reception in the Faculty Lounge.
Daniel R. Biddle, the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Politics editor has won a Pulitzer Prize and other national awards for his newspaper reporting and investigative journalism. He has been a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania.
Murray Dubin, author of South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner, was also a reporter and editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 34 years before leaving the newspaper. Both authors live in Philadelphia.
The subject of their book, Octavius Valentine Catto, was a teacher, Philadelphia baseball player, political activist, and civil rights orator before his murder in an election-day race riot in 1871. In Tasting Freedom, Biddle and Murray chronicle his life as a “free” black man whose commitment to establish racial equality in politics and education was heralded by his claim that “There must come a change.” He is one of those many men and women whose struggle to change America cost them their lives.
This program is sponsored by the SEIPLE Foundation in cooperation with the Department of English and the Langston Hughes Center for the Arts. It is free and open to the public.
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