Toulminville was the birth place of General William Crawford Gorgas who takes on the status of Toulminville Community Hero, as several streets and an elementary school were named after him, (Figures Park, named for Senator Micheal Figures, an influential black politician, was originally named Gorgas Park, in honor of General Gorgas). It also is the neighborhood in which baseball legend Hank Aaron lived during his adolescent years.LeFlore Preparatory Academy (originally Toulminville High School) is a performing arts magnet school named in honor of John LeFlore. As Toulminville High School, it was an all-white school during segregation times, and remained majority white until the 1970s, and in 1979 was renamed LeFlore High School in honor of LeFlore. In the 1980s, it was converted into a magnet school, which under Mobile County Public School policy, is ideally to have a 50/50 black white mix. This has not been the case as most whites have the negative image of Toulminville, which was developed in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s and which is closely tied to its promiximity to Trinity Gardens, an impoverished black neighborhood bordering the northwestern reaches of Toulminville, as well its proximity to the Southeastern side of Prichard.
John L. LeFlore's contributions to Mobile becoming a more prominent city in the south vary educationally, financially, personally, racially and socially. Mr. LeFlore served in leadership positions in many organizations ranging from the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters to the Mobile Committee for the Support of Public Education. Born May 17, 1903 in Mobile, Alabama to Dock and Clara LeFlore, John L. LeFlore's career as a community leader and a civil rights activist spanned fifty years. He was the most significant figure in the struggle for black equality in Mobile, throughout the southern part of Alabama and Mississippi, and along the Florida Gulf Coast. The John L. LeFlore Papers tell important stories about the civil rights movement in the urban south, document the development and early work of the NAACP in Mobile and provide insight into his life and aspirations. In December 1925, after graduating Owen Academy in 1920 and marrying Teah Beck in 1922, LeFlore began corresponding with the national office about the reorganization of the Mobile Branch of the NAACP that was organized in 1919 but became inactive in the early 1920s. By March 1926, Mr. LeFlore had mobilized enough people to apply for a new charter. LeFlore served as executive secretary for the branch from its inception to 1956. He also served as chairman of the organization's Regional Conference of Southern Branches from 1936 to 1945, a critical period in its development, and was vice-president of the Alabama Conference from 1945 to 1956. In 1956, when the NAACP was outlawed in Alabama, LeFlore and others in Mobile shifted their civil rights work to the Non-Partisan Voters League, where LeFlore served as director of case work from 1959 to 1975. LeFlore remained with the league even after the ban was lifted in 1964 and the Mobile branch of the NAACP was reorganized. The NAACP correspondence in the LeFlore Papers do not begin until 1930, but information about the early years of the Mobile Branch and Regionals Conference may be found in the NAACP papers at the Library of Congress.LeFlore participated in many organizations and served on various state committees. In addition to civil rights, these groups represent public work in areas such as prison reform, health and family planning, veterans' rights, labor unions, public education and general charity. In addition, he was a radio commentator for a public service program, Today's World, for many years. He and Foley, of Spring Hill College, organized a committee for the support of public education in 1973. This committee received federal funds to mount an intensive ad campaign against racial disturbances in public schools. LeFlore was a news correspondent for the Chicago Defender, the Pittsburgh Courier and the Associated Negro Press and covered many of the civil rights violations that occurred in the south. The Defender awarded LeFlore a citation for covering the lynching of four black people in Monroe, Georgia in 1946. LeFlore later became associate editor of the Mobile Beacon and wrote many editorials and features for this weekly newspaper. CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 Click here to make Falling Objects CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002 CLASS OF 2002
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