Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970
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African American author and sociologist.
From the description of Horace Cayton collection, 1965. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70965364
Afro-American author.
From the description of Horace Roscoe Cayton correspondence, 1963-1969. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 86118280
Horace R. Cayton, Jr. was born in Seattle, WA. on April 12, 1903 to Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (newspaper owner, editor, publisher), and Susie Cayton (journalist, teacher). He carved out his own distinguished career as a writer and activist. After a childhood in Seattle's leading black household, Horace Cayton, Jr. held numerous jobs; coped with society's disapproval of his taking a white wife; earned his B.A. as on eof three black students at the Univeristy of Washington; studied sociology in the distinguished graduate program at the University of Chicago; taught at both Tuskegee Institute and Fisk University; and studied race and labor in the United States as journalist, academic, government official, and labor and civil-rights organizer. He died in January 1970 in Paris, France. (Source: Horace R. Cayton, Jr., Long Old Road: An Autobiography (1963; Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1970)).
From the description of Papers, 1866-2007 (Chicago Public Library). WorldCat record id: 748677658
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Subjects:
- American literature
- American literature
- African American authors
- African American sociologists
- African American sociologists
- Authors, American
- Sociology
Occupations:
- African American authors
- African American sociologists
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- United States (as recorded)
