Remembering Claysburg's Don Witherspoon

This is part six of an ongoing series featuring notable people who once called the Cove home.

For longtime president of the Blair County chapter of the NAACP Don Witherspoon, human rights wasn't about color.

He was also from Claysburg.

Witherspoon's vice-president, the late Bill Sweet, said that Witherspoon would advocate for civil and human rights.

"We would visit prisons and answer complaints from the prisoners," he said. "If they needed representation, we would sit down with them and listen to what they had to say. We visited every prison within a six-county area at one time or another."

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