According to the website Answers.com, Percy E. Sutton accomplished the following:

"Attorney in private practice, New York City, 1953-; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, civil-rights defense attorney and consultant, early 1960s. New York State government, assemblyman, 1964-66, Manhattan borough president, 1966-77; Inner City Broadcasting Corporation, founder and president, 1972-91; Rev. Jesse Jackson's presidential campaign, advisor, 1984, 1988; African Continental Telecommunications Ltd (ACTEL), co-founder and chairman of the board, 1990s-."

In this article, learning about Percy Sutton's military accomplishments is the agenda.

Percy Sutton was born in San Antonio, Texas on November 24, 1920.  He was the fifteenth child born to a schoolteacher mother and a father who was a schoolteacher who would become prinicpal of San Atnonio's black high school, Phyillis Wheatley.  Although Sutton did not receive a college degree, all of his surviving twelve siblings earned college degrees with the older professionals in turn helping to support financially the others towards educationally goals.  Sutton went to three historical black colleges before dropping out.  The schools he attended were, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical College in Texas, the Tukegge Institute in Alabama and Virginia's Hampton Institute.

Sutton managed the skill of flying small planes as an alternative to school.  He worked as a stunt pilot at county fairs.  When the US entered World War II in 1941, he tried to enlist in the Army Air Corps like many African American men, but was rejected because he was black.  He traveled to New York City where black men were less prejudiced against for becoming soliders and was accepted. He became part of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen.   His flying detail contained manuevers over the Italian and Mediterranean theaters of operation that earned him combat stars as an intelligence officer with the 332nd Fighter Group's black 99th Pursuit Squadron.

After he was discharged with the rank of captain, Percy Sutton enrolled in Columbia University School of Law with tuition aid for veterans known as the G.I. Bill.  By this time, he was married and supported his wife and family as a dishwasher and hotel bellhop.  When finances became unbearable, he transferred to Brooklyn College School of Law and took a job as a post office clerk.  He also worked throughout his attendance in college as a subway conductor before earning a law degree in 1950. A year later he passed the New York bar exam then enlisted one more time in the military this time when war on Asia's Korean peninsula erupted.  Percy Sutton served as an Air Force intelligence officer in Washington, DC before becoming the first black trail judge advocate for the Air Force. Percy passed at the age of 89.

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