In 1891, Conrad Rideout, an African American lawyer and politician, arrives in Seattle. He will organize African American Democratic Clubs in Seattle, Spokane, and Roslyn.
Rideout was a graduate of Ann Arbor University, and he arrived from Arkansas. He had served two terms in the Arkansas legislature as a Democrat. He located his law office in downtown Seattle in the Roxwell Building at 1st Avenue and Columbia Street. Later he moved to the Occidental Building at Yesler Way, 2nd Avenue, and James Street.
The Colored Democratic Club of Seattle organized in his office in 1891, and in 1892 Rideout organized the Democratic Clubs in Spokane and Roslyn.
Sources:
Esther Hall Mumford, Seattle's Black Victorians 1852-1901 (Seattle: Ananse Press, 1980), 96, 192.
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