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Photographs from the Sutton Trust Summer School in Law at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law on 17 July 2015.
St. Thomas a Becket's church, Sutton-under-Brailes. Copyright Henry Drury 2006. Uploaded with the kind permission of Henry Drury.
The marriage of Samuel J. Sutton Sr. and Lillian Viola Smith created a home that nurtured ambition and achievement. Their 12 children (three others didn’t live to maturity) would excel — and sometimes make history — in the fields of education, medicine, science, law, business, politics and social service. All of them would earn college degrees and 10 of them would receive postgraduate degrees.”
The Sutton family had a large impact on history: Oliver Sutton was the first African-American on the New York State Supreme Court. Garlington Jerome was the first black person in the South to win a metropolitan elective seat when he was elected to the San Antonio Junior College Board in 1948. Percy Sutton was the attorney to Malcolm X.
Their home has been visited by distinguished people like Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, and Thurgood Marshall. Even more distinguished than it’s legendary visitors was the Sutton Family themselves.