Civil Rights Activist and educator Octavius Catto was murdered after voting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  In October 1871, Catto, who was also a Union Army veteran, was leaving the school where he worked as a teacher and administrator to head to the polls to cast his ballot in the city’s mayoral election. The election was the second […]

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