LeFlore, John L., 1903-1976
- Biography:
- American Black civil rights leader and politician in Mobile, Alabama. He founded the Mobile chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1925. LeFlore was also a correspondent for the Chicago Defender. After the expulsion of NAACP from Alabama in 1956, LeFlore helped found the Non-Partisan Voting League. He served as its director of casework from 1959 until his death. He led a 1942 bus boycott. In 1974 LeFlore won election to Alabama's House of Representatives, but died during his term.
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- LeFlore, John L., 1903-1976
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