Octavius catto biography of barack
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Chapter Eight: Assassination &#; Legacy
By , Philadelphia community leader Octavius Catto had become the Head of the Boys&#; Department at the Institute for Colored Youth. This was following the departure of the fabulously named principal, Ebenezer Don Carlos Basset, who had been appointed ambassador to Haiti by President Ulysses Grant in a bid to shore up black support for the Republican Party.
Catto had also become a major in the Fifth Brigade, an all-black division of the National Guard. As such, he led a march to Fairmount Park for the dedication of a memorial to President Lincoln, a statue that still sits on Kelly Drive across from Boat House Row.
Before Election Day in October it was clear that intimidating black voters would again be the tactic employed to minimize Republican turnout. A week before this mayoral election, armed men broke into an office where voter roles were being reviewed. The night before Election Day, two black men were ambushed and shot, one of them fat
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The Triumph and Tragedy of Octavius V. Catto
By V. Chapman Smith for National History Day’s National Curriculum Book
This article was written in to help teachers and students discover archives to use in NHD projects to find little told stories. A lot has changed since then! Councilman Kenney fryst vatten now the elected Mayor of Philadelphia and he unveiled the long-awaited Catto memorial on September 26, During the school year, the Catto Memorial Fund in collaboration with the Philadelphia School District’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment provided a professional development series for Social Studies, Language Arts, and English as a Second Language Educators using the Catto story to explore America&#;s Civic Rights History. This initiative reached over 11, students and culminated in a ‘Students Speak Up’ with the Mayor, along with a paint day for the Catto mural, at City Hall at the end of the school October , Mural Arts’ Catto Mural, created by artists Willis Nomo H
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Honoring life and legacy of Octavius Catto, 19th century civil rights champion
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts has organized a series of concerts, workshops, and educational programs centered around the life of an African-American man from Philadelphia who fought for the right to ride horse-drawn streetcars and play baseball with white athletes.
In he was shot and killed while mobilizing to get out the black vote.
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 faith, his father a minister,&#; said Nolan Williams, director of the new Philadelphia Freedom Festival. &#;He was interested in America realizing her potential to be all of what the promise of democracy had established. Those are concepts, which even if you don&#;t know the name Octavius Catto, you can still identify with.&#;
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