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African American baseball players Pennsylvania Philadelphia Biography African American political activists Pennsylvania Philadelphia Biography African American teachers Pennsylvania Philadelphia Biography African Americans Civil rights Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century Catto, Octavius V 1839-1871 Civil rights movements Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century Free African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Biography McMullen, William 1824-1901 Philadelphia (Pa.) Race relations History 19th century Racism Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th centuryFilter By Authors
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Summary: Octavius Valentine Catto was an orator who shared stages with Frederick Douglass, a second baseman on Philadelphia's best black baseball team, a teacher at the city's finest black school and an activist who fought in the state capital and on the streets for equal rights. With his racially-charged murder, the nation lost a civil rights pioneer-one who risked his life a century before Selma and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University Press 2010