Octavius Catto’s accomplishments in baseball make up just a sliver of his incredible life. “The Martin Luther King Jr. of the ...

The Octavius V. Catto statue being installed at Philadelphia’s City Hall (photo by Kelly Burkhardt, courtesy Office of the Mayor) The Octavius V. Catto statue being installed at Philadelphia’s City ...

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. He did it in ...

The historic ceremony outside City Hall in Philadelphia recently, that unveiled a statue of a significant yet overlooked 19 th Century civil rights leader, contained chilling contemporary connections ...

Often referred to as a “forgotten hero,” Octavius Valentine Catto will not be pushed aside in Philadelphia, where the inspirational history-maker will soon overlook the city from two different spots.

With Tuesday's unveiling of Philadelphia's first public statue honoring a specific African American, we explain who Catto was and why he's being memorialized. With Tuesday’s unveiling of ...

With all the talk of statues coming down in this country, here's a story about one that will go up. In Philadelphia, next month, the city will put up a monument to Octavius Catto. Mr. Catto was an ...

Every morning, I take the 33 bus to work. And for the past few months, I’ve noticed something looks different.As the bus makes its wide turn around City Hall onto East Penn Square, I see five tall ...

Feb. 4 would have been Rosa Parks’ 99th birthday. During African American History Month, we rightly celebrate her contributions to secure freedom for all Americans. Parks’ actions echo those of an ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with journalist and author Dan Biddle about early civil rights activist Octavius Catto, who is finally getting a statue erected in his honor in Philadelphia. With all the talk ...