{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"#112: There Must Come a Change [Octavius Valentine Catto]","description":"Octavius Valentine Catto was truly a man for all seasons: scholar, activist, politician, baseball star. He could have been the inspiring black leader Reconstruction-era Philadelphia needed... if he hadn't been murdered. https:\/\/order-of-the-jackalope.com\/there-must-come-a-change Key sources for this episode include Daniel Biddle and Murray Dubin's Tasting Freedom: Octavius Catto and the Battle for Equality in Civil War America; Joe William Trotter Jr and Eric Ledell Smith's African Americans in Pennsylvania: Shifting Historical Perspectives; Michael E. Lomax's Black Baseball Entrepreneurs: 1860-1901: Operating by Any Means Necessary; Ryan A. Swanson's When Baseball Went White: Reconstruction, Reconciliation, and Dreams of a National Pastime; and Stephan Segal's &quot;An Unbreakable Game: Baseball and Its Inability to Bring About Equality During Reconstruction&quot; The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope is a secret society devoted to the idea that that which is least known is best to know. Each episode we share a strange story or amazing fact, and no topic is off limits -- if it's interesting or entertaining, we'll cover about it!  Email: jackalope@order-of-the-jackalope.com Bluesky: https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/order-of-the-jackalope.com Discord: https:\/\/discord.gg\/Mbap3UQyCB TikTok: https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@orderjackalope Tumblr: https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/orderjackalope YouTube: https:\/\/youtube.com\/@orderjackalope  ","author_name":"The Ancient and Esoteric Order of the Jackalope","author_url":"http:\/\/order-of-the-jackalope.com","html":"<iframe title=\"Libsyn Player\" style=\"border: none\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/36324570\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/88AA3C\/\" height=\"90\" width=\"600\" scrolling=\"no\"  allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe>","thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/assets.libsyn.com\/secure\/content\/187539365"}