John LeFlore

Mobile native John L. LeFlore’s career as a community leader and civil rights activist spanned more than 50 years. In the mid-1920s, he transformed the Mobile chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) into one of the most active organizations in the state. During the 1950s, he moved to more direct intervention in local and state politics as head of the Non-Partisan Voters’ League, through which he lobbied for the desegregation of Mobile’s schools and government. He graduated in 1920 from Owen Academy, a small, privately run school for African American children.

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