1941-2001
Co-owned Je’s Restaurant. The first restaurant in Downtown Newark founded by people of color. Mayor Sharpe James called her “the heart and soul of downtown Newark”.
Photo from Newark NJ Memories.
Bibliography
Kukla, Barbara J. Newark Women: From Suffragettes to the Statehouse.
Roberts, Reginald. “Diane Sutton the soul of southern cooking” Star Ledger Aug 9, 2000.