Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr.

Continuing with the celebration of Black History Month, I will highlight Horace R. Cayton Sr. Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (1859–1940) was an American journalist and political activist. The son of a slave and a white plantation owner's daughter, Cayton went to Seattle, Washington, in the early 1890s, launching his own newspaper, the Seattle Republican, in 1894. The paper was … [Read more...] about Wednesday Open Thread: African-American History of the Pacific Northwest