Civil rights activist and Civil rights activist and community leader Ozell Sutton was born on December 13, , on a plantation in southeast Arkansas in the city of Gould. Sutton‘s mother was a widow who raised eight children: six boys who worked as cotton sharecroppers, and two girls who cooked and did laundry.
One of the most important Arkansas Ozell Sutton (December 13, – December 19, ) was among the first Black members of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. He was named one of the most influential Black Americans by Ebony magazine.
Ozell Sutton (December 13, 1925 One of the most important Arkansas political activists at the height of the civil rights struggle during the s and s, Ozell Sutton was a key player at many of the movement’s most critical moments—both in the state and throughout the South.
Born in Gould, Ark., Civil rights activist Ozell Sutton died “peacefully” at St. Joseph Hospital in Atlanta Saturday. Sutton, who celebrated his 90th birthday a week ago, marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama in , and was one of the first African-Americans to serve in the Marine Corps.
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Ozell Sutton was a unique, unsung and largely unknown civil rights leader whose work in The Movement was mostly as an undercover operative. The year old Little Rock, Arkansas native died. 
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Ozell Sutton, who marched with ATLANTA — Ozell Sutton, a longtime civil rights activist who was associated with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died, his daughter said Sunday. He was Alta Sutton told The Associated Press that her father died at Saint Joseph Hospital in Atlanta on Saturday. She said the family had celebrated his birthday nearly a week ago.