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Sutton was born in San Antonio, Texas, the youngest of fifteen children born to Samuel Johnson ("S.J.") Sutton and his wife, Lillian.. His father, an early civil-rights activist, was one of the first black civil servants a teacher and school administrator in Bexar County, Texas, and used the initials "S.J." for fear his first name, Samuel, would be shortened to Sambo.
Inner City was founded in 1970 by a group of prominent African-American New Yorkers active in business and civic affairs. They were led by Percy Sutton, an attorney and a former president of the New York borough of Manhattan; and Clarence Jones, a former publisher of the New York Amsterdam News.
Isaiah Edward Robinson Jr. (February 17, 1924 – April 14, 2011) was the first African-American president of the New York City Board of Education. [1] He chaired the Board's Decentralization Committee from May, 1969 to April, 1970.
But the tide turned when Percy Sutton, then the Manhattan borough president and New York City’s highest-ranking Black elected official, launched a campaign to bring back vitality to the ...
SCCPSS officials opened the doors to the district’s only 6-12 complex. Take a look inside the new multi-site campus Massive Savannah public schools complex unveiled Friday.
Most notable was Harlem’s famous “Gang of Four” — Percy Sutton, Basil Paterson, Charlie Rangel and David Dinkins, who became the city’s first Black mayor in 1989. Rangel, now 94, is the ...
Maxine Lewis starting working for Percy Sutton in the early 80s. Sutton produced It's Showtime at the Apollo, a syndicated, music television show first broadcast on September 12, 1987. She has worked for the Apollo theatre for decades as a producer for Showtime at the Apollo , and Apollo Kids at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. [ 4 ]
A review of SCCPSS's central office restructuring revealed a Dec. 2023 settlement with the contractor for the district's new multi-school complex.