Tarea Hall Pittman

Tarea Hall Pittman (1903 – July 31, 1991) was an American civil rights leader who served as President of the California State Association of Colored Women's Clubs from 1936 to 1938 and of the California Council of Negro Women from 1948 to 1951, and as Director of the West Coast Region of the NAACP from 1961 to 1965.

Biography Tarea Susie Hall was born in 1903, in Bakersfield, California, the second of five children born to William Hall and Susie Pinkney. Her father had moved from Alabama to Bakersfield in 1895 and made his living as a farm laborer. He helped his brothers found the Bakersfield Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).

During World War II, Pittman was a social worker whose job with the Richmond Travelers Aid Society was to help Black workers arriving from the South for work in the shipyards settle their families into the area. She was said to have been an "integral part of the civil rights and social welfare movements in the Bay Area and the West Coast for much of the 20th Century." after a community petition.