Ozell sutton biography template

One of the most important Arkansas political activists at the height of the civil rights struggle during the 1950s and 1960s, Ozell Sutton was a key player at many of the movement’s most critical moments—both in the state and throughout the South.

Ozell Sutton, who marched with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and worked as a mediator in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the 1992 riots, has died.

Brother Sutton, a community servant-leader and civil rights activist, was born on December 13, 1925, on a plantation in Gould, Arkansas.

One of the most important Arkansas political activists at the height of the civil rights struggle during the 1950s and 1960s.

This folder contains documents and photographs donated by Ozell Sutton.

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He was present at such watershed events as the 1957 Central High School desegregation crisis and the 1965 march at Selma, Alabama. In April 1968, Sutton was with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when King was murdered on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

He was also a trailblazer in Arkansas race relations, becoming the first black newspaper reporter to work for a white-owned newspaper when he went to work in 1950 as a staff writer for the Arkansas Democrat. He was inducted into the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame in 2001.

Ozell Sutton was born just outside the town of Gould (Lincoln County) in 1925.

His mother, Lula Belle, was a widow who raised the family on her own and, as a sharecropper, grew c