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Pittman, Willy

Biography:

Willy Pittman was a civil rights worker in Mississippi during the 1960s when he, along with other civil rights activists and students from the Jackson area, participated in an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration during a visit from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Hunter Morey, Willy Pittman and Chester Taylor (left to right) standing in front of a Western Union storefront during an Anti-Vietnam War demonstration protesting Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's visit to Jackson, Mississippi, 1967 February 24 (Black-and-white photographs)