Background
Cayton, Horace Roscoe was born on April 12, 1903 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Horace Roscoe and Susie (Revels) Cayton.
Cayton, Horace Roscoe was born on April 12, 1903 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Horace Roscoe and Susie (Revels) Cayton.
Bachelor of Arts, Univercity Washington, 1931. Graduate student of University Chicago, 1931-1935. Special training Institute Psychoanalysis, 1945.
Graduate student New York University, 1956.
Sheriff, Seattle, 1929-1931. Instructor economics Fisk University, 1935-1936. Research assistant, instructor department anthropology University of Chicago, 1936-1937.
Fellow Julius Rosenwald Fund, 1937-1939.
Director Parkway Community House, Chicago, 1940-1949. United Nations correspondent Pittsburgh Courier, 1952-1954.
Lecturer department sociology College City New York, 1957-1958. Special assistant Commissioner Welfare, New York City, 1958-1959.
Research assistant geriatric mental illness Langley Porter Clinic, 1959-1960.
Staff international survey corrections Institute Study Crime and Delinquency, Berkeley, California, 1961-1962. Writer, researcher, 1962-1963. Program coordinator university expert, University of California, 1963-1964, project director study Negro marketing theory Institute Business and Economics Research, University of California at Berkeley, 1965-1970.
Board of directors Council Social Agencies, Chicago.
Secretary, member board directors Parkway Community House, 1944-1948. Company-recipient Anisfield-Wolf award for Black Metropolis, book on race relations public 1945.
Named outstanding race relations book of year New York Public Library, 1945.
Member Society Social Research, American Sociological Society, Society Midland.
Married Ruby Jordan, Deputy.