Suitts has served on the board of directors of the American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia; the Georgia Consumers Utility Counsel; and a multi-volume book project, "Contributions of Black Women to American History." He was president of Clark College's Atlanta Media Project from 1981-1985 and chair of the cable television board of the City of Atlanta from 1983-1985. He also has served as a board member of the Georgia Folklife Council, the regional advisory board of the National Alliance of Business, and SOLINET, the Southeast library network. In 1984, Suitts was selected for a Lyndhurst Prize. He was also executive producer of   "Will The Circle Be Unbroken," a Peabody award-winning radio history of the South's local civil rights movements broadcast nationally in recent years by Public Radio International.