Own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octavius catto. He was a civil rights hero at a time in this countrys history when African American civil rights heroes were just not very well known. Catto was born in South Carolina in 1839 and moved to philadelphia at nine years old. Explain during his lifetime what it was like in philadelphia in general when it comes to race. You were unable to vote until 1870. You couldnt sit in a, in a jury. You could not go to the academy of music. You couldnt go to a Public School where white students went. Your job choices were very, very limited. It was a difficult life and your life was in danger on the street both from whites and from people who would want to kidnap you and send you sout
The future is for the unafraid. Im rick williams. And im melisa magee. Tonight its a special visions 2018. Celebrating black History Month meet temples first Rhodes Scholar. See how the sixers are spending their summer. And from mastering money to meditation, see how several black Business Owners are making their mark welcome to tonights show. Were here at uncle bobbies coffee and books in germantown. Its owned by professor, author and activist dr. Marc lamont hill. You might recognize him from some of the cable news shows they have a little light fare food, coffee from local brand la colombe. Plus a vast array of titles by and about people of color. And speaking of books, our own Tamala Edwards sat down with the two authors of tasting freedom. A book about the life of Octavious Catto a little known philadelphia civil rights activist from the 1800s. Take a look. Authors murray dubin and Daniel Bittle published tasting freedom in 2010, a biography about forgotten philadelphia hero octav
Good morning. Good to have been here. I am a the cochair of the American Writers Museum of it is my pleasure to welcome you and get started. The American Writers Museum is a long overdue book. Art is about capturing duty in the way we captured the beautyberry emotions and feelings where we came from and who we are in the American Writers Museum will provide that opportunity for people all across the nation. It is amazing we have not had this before but we do now. [applause] so to have a rich literary tradition we plan to see that continue to grow not only to honor the past authors but also engaged courage authors and more importantly encourage future authors to bring their skills to this event. So those friends that our important to help us to encourage us from the very beginning a School Teacher who taught history as an avid reader and somebody who has been important to us and to encourage us to get started. , say a few words. [applause] good morning. I am glad to be here today at the
It does, why does it have a particular shape, why do we see one large cluster of skyscrapers downtown and another one several miles to he north in midtown. Theres relatively few skyscrapers even to this day in the area in between. So building the skyline, just very briefly, is a book about my research and im an economist at rutgers newark. Over last decade or so, my interests have primarily been in studying the economys of cities, the economics of real estate and skyscrapers. And much of this book discusses my findings from this Research Agenda over the last decade. So the book is an economic history of the manhattan skyline and from 1626 to the present, perhaps youre wondering what 1626 has to do with the modern skyline. Ill leave that for you to read in the book. The questions that i seek to answer in the book itself are, what were the early real estate decisions that ultimately gave rise to the skyline . What have been the economic of skyscrapers since the late 19th century, and how
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