Cyrus Field Adams (July 18, 1858 – February 18, 1942), was an American civil rights activist, writer, teacher, newspaper manager, and businessman.

[3] Cyrus worked with one of his two brothers, John Quincy Adams, in managing his first of many newspapers called Bulletin in Louisville from 1879 to 1885.

In his editorials, he expressed strong defense against the white race and was rejected a teaching job the following school year.

[5] Adams left Kentucky to live temporarily in cities including Washington D.C., Chicago and St. Paul Minnesota.

[6] Adams contributed to the Civil Rights Movement through his multiple newspapers speaking out against preconceptions and racism of the African American community.

His attributions to the movement involved his many articles and books he published documenting civil rights organizations and important African American activists.

He wrote The National Afro-American Council and the articles "Col. William Pledger" and "George L. Knox" published in the Colored American Magazine in 1902.

In his later life after being appointed by Theodore Roosevelt to be the assistant register at the United States Treasury, he used this platform to write a book titled, The National Afro-American Council, Organized 1898: a history etc.