Susie Revels Cayton

Biographical Details

• Susie Revels Cayton was the daughter of Hiram Revels, the first black person elected to the U.S. Senate. She became associate editor of the Seattle Republican paper after her marriage to the paper's owner and editor, Horace Cayton. The Seattle Republican was published from 1894 to 1917. The image below is of an article that appeared July 23, 1909 in The Seattle Republican, written by Horace Cayton (see larger version here).

Further Reading:

• See the Club Journal of The Colored Women's Federation and Jurisdiction
• See this excellent HistoryLink.org essay titled Cayton, Horace (1859-1940), HistoryLink.org Essay 309
• Horace Cayton, Long Old Road: An Autobiography (New York: Trident Press, 1965).
• Esther Mumford, Seattle’s Black Victorians 1852-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980).
• Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District, from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994).