36K views · 1.2K reactions | APPLAUDING AN ACTIVIST, EDUCATOR & ATHLETE: "The View" honors Octavius Catto, one of the 19th century’s most influential Black leaders, as today’s #BlackHistoryMonth FYI. Learn about his fight for the desegregation of Philadelphia’s public trolleys and more: https://abcn.ws/3j56ZWu | The View | Facebook

Octavius Valentine Catto (February 22, 1839 – October 10, 1871) was an American educator, intellectual, and civil rights activist in Philadelphia. 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. He became educated and served as a teacher, becoming active in civil rights. He also became known as a top cricket and baseball pla