The 19th-Century Civil Rights Icon Who Integrated Philly’s Streetcars (and the Franklin Institute)


This coming Monday, February 22nd, will be the 182nd birthday of Octavius Valentine Catto, the Black orator, teacher and ballplayer whose statue was erected by […]

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