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.
John LeFlore
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Courtesy of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of South Alabama
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