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After LeCount passed the teaching exam, becoming the first black woman in Philadelphia to do so, [6] she began teaching at the Ohio Street School (later renamed the Octavius V. Catto School). She became principal around 1868, making her the second black female principal in Philadelphia. [ 4 ]
Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated.
Harry Catto (1865–1912), American Negro league baseball outfielder; Henry E. Catto Jr. (1930–2011), American businessman and ambassador; Jamie Catto (born 1968), British singer/songwriter; Jeremy Catto (1939–2018), British historian; Malcolm Catto, English drummer and record producer; Max Catto (1907–1992), English playwright and novelist
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Octavius Catto (1839–1871) was born in South Carolina and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] He protested to desegregate Philadelphia's trolley system, recruited African Americans to join the Union Army during the American Civil War, and campaigned for Pennsylvania to ratify the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which banned voting discrimination based on race. [3]
Hinton coined the school’s name, a reference to Hillman, the fictional historically Black college featured in “The Cosby Show” and its spinoff, “A Different World.” “I’ve always ...
Robert Jeremy Adam Inch Catto (27 July 1939 – 17 August 2018) was a British historian who was a Rhodes fellow and tutor in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford between 1970 and 2006. His research interests lay in the politics and religion of later medieval England.