Walter Sillers Jr. (April 13, 1888 – September 24, 1966) was an American lawyer, politician, landowner, and white supremacist.

He served on the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission,[2] a state agency established to combat integration and civil rights organizing.

His maternal grandfather was Colonel Elisha Warfield, a planter and Confederate military officer who served in the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment.

"[10] He inherited multiple plantations from his father and held interests in banks, oil companies, and other businesses in Mississippi.

[6] Given Sillers' preeminence in the state legislature, several public buildings were named for him during his fifty years in office.

[7] Delta State University's Walter Sillers Coliseum, built in 1960 with proceeds from a sale of bonds which Sillers opposed,[11] has also come under scrutiny, with public calls for the building to be named after Lusia Harris instead,[12] an African American woman who led the Delta State Lady Statesmen basketball team to three consecutive national championships and became the first and only woman ever drafted into the NBA.