1st Edition

Long Old Road Back to Black Metropolis

By Horace Cayton Copyright 2011
412 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

402 Pages
by Routledge

From the time that he ran away to sea at sixteen, until he graduated from the University of Washington, Horace R. Cayton was a messman on a freighter, an unknowing handyman in an Alaskan brothel, a juvenile delinquent and inmate of a reform school, a dock worker and steward on a passenger liner, and a deputy in the sheriff's office of King County, Washington.Born in Seattle, a city then uniquely... Read more
1: Childhood in the West; 2: The Die Is Cast; 3: A Boys Reformation; 4: Labor Pains; 5: Deputy to the Sheriff of King County; 6: Marriage and Career; 7: To Be in Chicago in the Thirties; 8: Tuskegee Was Quite a Place; 9: Escape to Europe; 10: Back to Black Metropolis: Race Leader, Race Man; 11: The Dark Inner Landscape; 12: In Fear and Trembling; 13: A Picnic with Sinclair Lewis; 14: The Crack-up; 15: Blood Makes Good Paint; 16: The World Is Now the Scene; 17: The Battle Is Being Won

Biography

Horace Cayton