Sutton, Percy E.

Biography:

Percy E. Sutton was an attorney and New York NAACP branch president when he was arrested at the airport in Jackson, Mississippi for his participation in a Freedom Ride from Montgomery, Alabama to Jackson, Mississippi on 8 June 1961. Sutton was leader of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Democratic Club and later served as chairman of Inner City Broadcasting.

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