Long before Selma, Octavius Catto, a pioneer of black assertion in Philadelphia

 

A century before the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham, a 27-year-old African-American named Octavius Catto led the fight to desegregate Philadelphia’s horse-drawn streetcars.

Source: Black Then

 

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