Type | Weekly newspaper |
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Founder(s) | Horace R. Cayton Sr. |
Founded | May 19, 1894 |
City | Seattle |
Country | United States |
ISSN | 2157-3271 |
OCLC number | 10328970 |
The Seattle Republican was a weekly newspaper in Seattle from 1894 to 1913, [1] and is considered Seattle's first successful African American newspaper. [2] Its founder, Horace R. Cayton Sr., was a former slave in the American South. [3] Clayton's wife, Susie Revels Cayton, was associate editor starting in 1900 and she contributed articles and short stories. [1] The newspaper sought to portray "the black race" in a positive manner and hoped to create harmony between races through open discussion of sensitive race issues. This upset white readership and likely contributed to the newspaper's closing. [1] The newspaper is part of the collection of the Library of Congress. [4]
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