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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.
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]
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 ]
The Philadelphia Pythians (also Pythian Base Ball Club, Pythian Baseball Club, or the "Pyths") [1] was one of the earliest Negro league baseball clubs, founded in 1865. [2] [3] African-American leaders Jacob C. White Jr. and Octavius V. Catto established the team.
In 1897, Dorsey and Jones, an ANHS founder and author, created a model for a monument to honor Octavius V. Catto, a Black activist and schoolteacher who was killed in 1871 on Election Day by a white man. Black residents of Philadelphia had been quietly planning the memorial, which was to be erected in Merion Cemetery at 513 S. 15th Street.
Octavius V. Catto (1839-1871) - An early graduate of the Institute for Colored Youth, Catto, who lived here, was an educator, Union army major, and political organizer. In 1871, he was assassinated by rioters while urging blacks to vote. His death was widely mourned. (812 South St. - 1992)
After the Civil War, African Americans in Philadelphia, including Octavius V. Catto (1839–1871), organized to end segregation of the city's schools and streetcars and regain the right to vote. Their efforts paid off; in 1867, streetcar segregation was ended throughout the state, and legal segregation of schools ended in 1881 (although de ...
He served as prosecuting attorney in the trial of Frank Kelly for the murder of Octavius Catto in which the jury acquitted Kelly. [4] Hagert served as district attorney in 1856–1857, 1868–1871, 1875–1878, and 1878–1881. [5] He was especially distinguished as a nisi prius lawyer. [3]