John LeFlore

Mobile native John L. LeFlore (1903-1976) reactivated the NAACP branch in Mobile during the mid-1920s and was a civil rights leader in that city for nearly 50 years. In 1974, LeFlore was elected to the Alabama state legislature.

Portrait of John LeFlore, Alabama civil rights leader
Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
Portrait of John LeFlore, Alabama civil rights leader