Civil rights activist James E. “Jim” Sulton, 84

Posted: Sunday, April 20th, 2008 10:33 am

Orangeburg [SC] native and civil rights icon James E. “Jim” Sulton died Friday. He was 84. …

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. …