Cayton, Horace Roscoe (1903-1970)

US sociologist and cultural anthropologist. He taught at Fisk University and later headed a Works Progress Administration research project in Chicago that formed the basis of the landmark study Black Metropolis (1946), which he coauthored with St Clair Drake.

He was born in Seattle, Washington. The son of a newspaper editor, he was a sailor for four years before studying at the University of Washington (BA 1932). He became a professor at the University of California at Berkeley in 1959.