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September 12, 2012
Elijah Pitts was a football player who grew up in Mayflower (Faulkner County), played at Philander Smith College, and played for the Green Bay Packers in the first Super Bowl. He was one of the early black stars of the National Football League (NFL) from the segregated South and had a long career as a player and a professional coach. He died in 1998.