Career
Pittman organized protests to force Kaiser Shipyards to hire African Americans in 1941 and 1942, helped desegregate the Oakland Fire Department in 1952, and lobbied successfully for the California Fair Employment Practices Acting in 1959 and subsequent laws in Arizona, Alaska, and Nevada. Throughout her career, Pittman was a frequent host of the Negroes in the News radio program In 2015 the Berkeley, California city council voted to rename the city"s South Branch Library in Pittman"s honor after a community petition.