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Mossback's Northwest: The amazing legacy of the Cayton-Revels family

The amazing legacy of the Cayton-Revels family

A Victorian home in Seattle recently became a landmark due to the story it tells about a Black family’s quest for equality and respect and why their most treasured heirloom is a clock given by Jefferson Davis. The Cayton-Revels were newspaper publishers, influential in state politics and civic life, until they confronted a wave of racism in the early 1900s.

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