Event

“Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America”
Biddle and Dubin chronicle the life of Catto in Philadelphia, his fight to educate newly freed slaves and the events leading up to his murder in 1871.  They link his story to the larger post civil war era movement to realize the promise of rights for Blacks in the United States

Biddle is an editor with The Philadelphia Inquirer and won a Pulitzer Prize for his investigative stories on the courts. He has taught the urban journalism course in the Urban Studies program at Penn.

Dubin is also author of “South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories and the Melrose Diner.” He worked as a reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Inquirer for thirty-four years.