Cayton, Horace R. (Horace Roscoe), 1903-1970 (Personal Name)

NUCMC data from St. Cloud State Univ. Library Resources Services for Compton, I. Papers, 1947-[ongoing] (Horace R. Cayton)

LC data base, 3-23-92 (hdg.: Cayton, Horace Roscoe, 1903-1970; usage: Horace R. Cayton)

WWWA, 1969-1973 (Horace Roscoe Cayton, 1903-1970; writer and sociologist)

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed January 16, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Cayton, Horace Roscoe, Jr.; Horace Cayton; sociologist, educator, author; born 1903 in Seattle, Washington, United States; received a degree in sociology from University of Washington; was appointed assistant to the U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1934); worked as instructor of economics and labor at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (1935); directed Works Progress Administration (WPA), Chicago (1936); was director of Chicago's Parkway Community House (1940); co-author of Black Metropolis (1945), a book that received Anisfield-Wolf Award; died 1970 in United States)