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Atlanta: Civil Rights Activist Ozell Sutton Dies at 90

HeadlineDec 24, 2015

And the longtime civil rights activist Ozell Sutton has died at the age of 90. In 1957, Sutton helped enroll nine African-American students at Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas. He marched alongside Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Alabama, in 1965 and was at the Memphis hotel when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Sutton also worked as a journalist for the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. He died Saturday in Atlanta, a week after celebrating his 90th birthday.

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