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and nonetheless, because of your color of your skin,

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combined with your radicalism of your politics,

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a politics that only wanted in, that didn't want to destroy the system, but only wanted participation

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um, you could be gunned down because of that activism.

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And the city was ashamed. And, at its funeral--, at Octavius Catto's funeral--, the crowds were larger than when Lincoln's body had passed through in 1965.

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So we're left with the divided legacy of Octavius Catto,

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as the mart-- as the motto on this 'carte de visite' photo says, "One More Martyr in the Cause of Constitutional Liverty"--

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The notion that that cause will endure, but nonetheless the cynicism or the, or the, the the wry acknowledgment that it's one more martyr, that there had been many martyrs, and there'd be many more martyrs to come.

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Octavius Catto a forgotten member, in some senses, of the Civil Rights Movement

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has been reclaimed to that movement by inclusion here in the National Portrait Gallery,

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and we celebrate his life as we celebrate the lives of all who have worked to make this country more da-- democratic and freer.

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Thank you.

Transcription Notes:
1965 -- speaker probably intended 1865?