By Victor Trammell Photo credits: YouTube screenshot On February 22, 1839, in Charleston, South Carolina, Octavius Valentine Catto (pictured) was born to a free mother. Catto was a civil rights activist, educator, and intellectual in Philadelphia. He rose to the position of principal of all-male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had […]
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