Contextualizing Octavius Catto: Studying a Forgotten Hero who Bridges the Past and Present

Contextualizing Octavius Catto: Studying a Forgotten Hero who Bridges the Past and Present

  1. Social Education
  2. Social Education November/December 2020
  3. Contextualizing Octavius Catto: Studying a Forgotten Hero who Bridges the Past and Present

Authors:

Lightning Peter Jay

Page:342

Journal Issue:

Issue
Social Education November/December 2020

Studying the nineteenth-century educator and civil rights leader Octavius Catto can help students move beyond the simplistic U.S. narrative of racial progress to a more complex understanding of race and resistance in America.