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They Carried Us tells the story of Philadelphia s Black women leaders

‘They Carried Us’ tells the story of Philadelphia’s Black women leaders Valerie Russ, The Philadelphia Inquirer With Octavius V. Catto ‘s statue erected at City Hall, more people know about the extraordinary 19th century African American educator, Pennsylvania National Guard officer, and voting-rights activist who was assassinated on South Street on Election Day 1871. However, the recent book, They Carried Us: The Social Impact of Philadelphia’s Black Women Leaders, tells about Caroline LeCount, an educator and activist in her own right, who was Catto’s fiance. LeCount was a teacher and later the principal of the Ohio Street School , at Lombard Street, near 20th. She was also part of a women’s resistance movement that defied the city’s laws that segregated horse-drawn street cars.

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Caroline LeCount fought to desegregate Philly streetcars

WHYY By Left: Rosa Parks honored during SEPTA ceremony (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) Right: Caroline LeCount (Courtesy of Transportationhistory.org) A specially decorated bus sat parked in front of SEPTA headquarters, with a cutout of civil rights hero Rosa Parks on a front seat inside. The display is a Black History Month celebration honoring her refusal to give up her seat to a white man in the Jim Crow South that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a major moment in the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. “This is just the first of many events and activities and discussions that we will have this month,” said SEPTA General Manager Leslie Richards. “I think it is fabulous that we [are] starting off with an event that honors an outstanding woman and also involves a bus.”

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