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Horace R. Cayton Sr.
1859–1940
United States
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Biography
Horace Roscoe Cayton Sr. (February 3, 1859 – August 16, 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.
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