Octavius Catto is another one of those people who fought a good fight for racial equality but never got the name recognition. Apparently Octavius Catto actually shared a stage with famed abolitionist Frederick Douglas and apparently "electrified" the crowd. He worked for integration in everything from baseball to street cars and actually even wrote a book on it. He was actually even killed for his work trying to encourage black voter participation in the 1971 election because the Irish Democratic machine didn't like blacks, especially blacks voting GOP to get a chance.
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He was an interesting man, but I think the election was in 1871. :D
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