[2] Its founder, Horace R. Cayton Sr., was a former slave in the American South.

[3] Clayton's wife, Susie Revels Cayton, was associate editor starting in 1900 and she contributed articles and short stories.

This upset white readership and likely contributed to the newspaper's closing.

[1] The newspaper is part of the collection of the Library of Congress.

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