Baseball player Octavius Catto did the same in the 1800s, until it cost him his life. This summer saw athletes fight for voters' rights in unprecedented ways.

As a city councilman, he helped establish the Octavius V. Catto Memorial Fund; today, he has a portrait of Catto hanging in his office at City Hall. During an interview with WURD radio last year, ...

What to Know. 19th-century educator Octavius Valentine Catto was a leading civil rights leader in Philadelphia. Catto fought for a better education for black students, led efforts to desegregate ...

In 1871, Catto was shot in the street on Election Day while rallying to get people to the polls. His funeral was a huge public event. “His funeral — other than Abraham Lincoln’s — was the largest ...

Octavius Catto was a 19th-century civil rights activist before the phrase “civil rights” was coined. “He was a sports advocate and an athlete. He loved the classics — Latin and Greek. He was a man of ...

Octavius Catto was, in his day, as known for his civil rights activism as was Frederick Douglass. Skip to content. Fresh Air Listen Live Listen Live. Next. Marketplace. Marketplace focuses on the ...

"Octavius Catto understood how sacred the ability to vote was," says Murray Dubin.

SIMON: Octavius Catto must have been an extraordinarily compelling personality. BIDDLE: You know, we like to say he's one of the few historic figures who has been likened to both Martin Luther ...

That ceremony honored the works of Octavius V. Catto, an activist, educator and officer in the Union Army during the Civil War. Several hundred attended the ceremony including Philadelphia’s ...

For the first time in its history, the city of Philadelphia officially dedicated a public statue of an African-American individual. On Tuesday, the permanent sculpture was unveiled at Market and South ...

On Tuesday, the city of Philadelphia will resurrect the memory of one of its most influential citizens, Octavius Catto, a civil rights activist whose work was instrumental in getting black men the ...

Philly students, teachers join in monumental art project to honor Octavius Catto. School district initiative aims to focus on forgotten chapters of Philadelphia history. By; Darryl C. Murphy; May 7, ...