Ozell sutton biography of barack
Ozell Sutton - Wikipedia...
By Maynard Eaton
Ozell Sutton was a unique, unsung and largely unknown civil rights leader whose work in The Movement was mostly as an undercover operative. The 90-year old Little Rock, Arkansas native died recently following a rich and robust life of pioneering activism.
Sutton was one of the first African American Marines to fight in World War II, an organizer of the “Little Rock Nine” school integration struggle, a special assistant to Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, President of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, friend and cohort of Martin Luther King Jr.
and for 30 years the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Relations Service director in the conflict-prone Southeast region.
“He was good; he was very good,” says Thomas Battles, a co-worker in the Community Relations Service.
Ozell sutton biography of barack
“In 1994 he received the Attorney General’s Award for Exceptional Service. Working with Ozell was like a ministry. H