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Percy Sutton

CTL-E-0715 · Person · 1970-2009

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Civil rights attorney, former Manhattan borough president, and media-ownership pioneer who founded Inner City Broadcasting Corporation.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MEDIA-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MEDIA-001:MED-091; source research type(s): Person.

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Apartment houses and funeral parlor in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941
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Children asleep in a kitchenette apartment, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

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