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December 28, 2009

Percy Sutton, Malcolm X’s Former Attorney, 89, Dies
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Here in New York, Percy Sutton has died at the age of eighty-nine. In
the 1960s Sutton served as Malcolm X’s attorney. He later became one of
the nation’s most prominent African American political and business
leaders.



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