Horace Cayton

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Seattle’s first black cop meets a killer over checkers

Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black…

Horace Cayton Jr., the author of Long Old Road, as an adult.

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A walk in Seattle with my father, who was born a slave

Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black…

Horace Cayton Jr., center, as an adult. Cayton worked many jobs before becoming an esteemed sociologist in Chicago - longshoreman and Seattle's first black deputy, among others.

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Not in your history book: When white strikers abducted black workers on a Seattle streetcar

Horace Cayton was an African-American sociologist born in Seattle in 1903. His father was born a slave; his mother was the daughter of the first black…