Revels Cayton (1907 – November 4, 1995) was an American union leader and civil rights activist active in the states of Washington and California.
[3] Cayton was forced to seek employment at age 15 as a telephone operator due to a series of unfortunate financial events.
[6] In a letter to a friend, Cayton stated, "in the beginning I was drawn to the Party because I believed that in a socialist system there would be no racism.
[4] After this he moved to New York City where he served from 1945 to 1947 as the Executive Secretary of the National Negro Congress (NNC).
[4] In 1960, he was the first manager of St. Francis Square, a housing development in San Francisco built by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Pacific Maritime Association.