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Ozell Sutton (1925–2015)
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.
He was present at such watershed events as the 1957 Central High School desegregation crisis and the 1965 march at Selma, Alabama.
Ozell sutton biography of rory
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