Football player Elijah Pitts was born to sharecropper parents on land near Mayflower (Faulkner County). Pitts played at Philander Smith College and went on to star 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.
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