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HAWKINS FIELD, Jackson Airport, MS - RIDE 12

Updated: Jun 21, 2022

The first 2 men pictured below: Mark Lane and Percy Sutton.




Percy E. Sutton, a pioneering figure who represented Malcolm X as a young lawyer and became one of the nation’s most prominent black political and business leaders, died in a Manhattan nursing home on Saturday, his family said. He was 89....Mr. Sutton, whose passion for civil rights was inherited from his father, was arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi and Alabama in the 1960s, yet once described himself as “an evolutionist rather than a revolutionist” in matters of race. “You ought always to keep the lines of communication open with those with whom you disagree,” he said. (from the New York Times obituary of December 27, 2009)

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