Civil rights activist James E. “Jim” Sulton, 84
Posted: Sunday, April 20th, 2008 10:33 amOrangeburg [SC] native and civil rights icon James E. “Jim” Sulton died Friday. He was 84.
Sulton’s life spanned years from service in World War II through the civil rights battles of the 1960s. …
In the late 1940s, he became active in voter-registration drives, led the first march in downtown Orangeburg to the mayor’s office to make an official complaint about the city’s segregated systems and was among the first to ‘’sit in” at Kress 5&10.
Because of his actions in the move to gain equality for blacks, Sulton was the object of arrests and risked the service-station business he and his brother, Roy, ran…
Sulton played host to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Russell Street residence he called home for his entire life and where many civil rights notables gathered for strategy sessions. He traveled in to the nation’s capital for the 1963 March on Washington. … Read full obituary
