Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Revels Cayton ya kasance mai aiki musamman a 1934; a wannan shekarar ya shiga yankin Arewa maso Yammacin Jam'iyyar Kwaminis, ya shirya sashen Seattle na Jam'iyyar Kwaminis na League of Struggle for Negro Rights, kuma ya shiga cikin 1934 West Coast waterfront yajin aiki
a birnin San Francisco. A cikin 1940 ya shigar da karar nuna bambanci a kan gidan cin abinci na San Francisco wanda ya ƙi ba da sabis a gare shi, Paul Robeson, da wasu biyar.