Octavius Catto
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 153 years ago |
Date of birth | February 22,1839 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Charleston |
South Carolina | |
United States | |
Date of died | October 10,1871 |
Died | Philadelphia |
Pennsylvania | |
United States | |
Place of burial | Eden Cemetery, Collingdale, Pennsylvania, United States |
Books | The Integration of Sports History |
Parents | William T. Catto |
Sarah Isabella Cain | |
Job | Educator |
Education | Historic Institute for Colored Youth Building |
Cheyney University Of Pennsylvania | |
Current partner | Caroline LeCount |
Movement | Civil rights movement |
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Date of Upd. | |
ID | 570883 |
Octavius Catto Life story
Octavius Valentine Catto was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist. He became principal of male students at the Institute for Colored Youth, where he had also been educated. Born free in Charleston, South Carolina, in a prominent mixed-race family, he moved north as a boy with his family.