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The Seattle Republican

The front page of the January 19, 1910 edition
Type	Weekly newspaper
Founder(s)	Horace R. Cayton Sr.
Founded	May 19, 1894; 130 years ago (May 19, 1894)
City	Seattle
Country	United States
ISSN	2157-3271
OCLC number	10328970
Media of the United States List of newspapers

The Seattle Republican was a weekly newspaper in Seattle from 1894 to 1913, and is considered Seattle's first successful African American newspaper. Its founder, Horace R. Cayton Sr., was a former slave in the American South. Clayton's wife, Susie Revels Cayton, was associate editor starting in 1900 and she contributed articles and short stories. 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. The newspaper is part of the collection of the Library of Congress.

References

1. ^ Martineau., Wagner, Tricia (2007). African American women of the Old West (1st ed.). Guilford, Conn.: TwoDot, an imprint of The Globe Pequot Press. ISBN 9780762739004. OCLC 70230638.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
2. "About The Seattle Republican". Chronicling America. Washington, DC: Library of Congress. Archived from the original on April 19, 2017.
3. "Former slave becomes newspaper publisher". African American Registry. Archived from the original on May 25, 2018.
4. "The Seattle Republican. [volume]".

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