David Lee Pitts

In the early morning quiet of July 13, 1960, in Monroe, Louisiana, the sound of multiple gunshots shattered the peace. When the violence subsided, four Black men were dead or dying, including 24-year-old David Lee Pitts. The brother of David, Albert Pitts Jr., their cousin Earnest McFarland, and another co-worker, Alfred 'Monk' Marshall, also lay slain. A fifth man, Charlie Willis, was grievously wounded but survived. The men, all employees of a local sanitation company, had gone to the home of ...

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