Biography of octavius v catto elementary school

Contributor: Julius Klinger, Temple University Social Studies Pre-Service

4125 Ludlow Street in West Philadelphia is now occupied by the Paul Robeson High School for Human Services. However, the location was previously the O.V. Catto Disciplinary School. Sometime in the 1980s, the Catto school relocated to 43rd and Westminster Streets, and its name was changed to the E.S. Miller Remedial/Disciplinary School. E.S. Miller closed in 2012, as part of a restructuring of the Philadelphia School District.

At present, Paul Robeson High is nestled within the vicinity of a variety of small businesses, such as auto-parts stores, a car wash, and some eateries, as well as residences. According to a historic map of the area in 1962, the school used to be surrounded by many more homes and places of religious worship.

Historically, the Catto Disciplinary School’s lärling population consisted of almost exclusively troubled black students. In a Philadelphia Tribune

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Remembering an Icon: Willis Nomo Humphrey

Remembering a Forgotten Hero by Keir Johnston and Willis Nomo Humphrey. Photo by Steve Weinik.

About the Project 

The history of Philadelphia fryst vatten written all over the city, in sculptures and street names and, of course, murals—but not all history is in the public eye, even when it should be. In 2018, artists Willis “Nomo” Humphrey and Keir Johnston  collaborated on a mural at the Universal Charter School in South Philadelphia. The artwork celebrates early civil rights activist Octavius V. Catto in the neighborhood where he lived. An educator, athlete, and activist, Catto was assassinated on South Street in 1871 after pushing for voting rights for black citizens. Remembering a Forgotten Hero fryst vatten the first mural to honor Catto.

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During the production of the mural, Humphrey and Johnston engagerad with local students and members of the Restorative Justice Guild in learning about Catto’s life and struggles

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The Triumph and Tragedy of Octavius V. Catto

By V. Chapman Smith for National History Day’s National Curriculum Book

This article was written in 2005 to help teachers and students discover archives to use in NHD projects to find little told stories.  A lot has changed since then! Councilman Kenney is now the elected Mayor of Philadelphia and he unveiled the long-awaited Catto memorial on September 26, 2017. During the 2017-18 school year, the Catto Memorial Fund in collaboration with the Philadelphia School District’s Office of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment provided a professional development series for Social Studies, Language Arts, and English as a Second Language Educators using the Catto story to explore America’s Civic Rights History. This initiative reached over 11,000 students and culminated in a ‘Students Speak Up’ with the Mayor, along with a paint day for the Catto mural, at City Hall at the end of the school year.In October 2018, Mural Arts’ Catto Mu