Florence Lesueur, ex-president, director of NAACP branch; at 93
Florence (Barrett) Lesueur, president of the Boston branch of the NAACP in 1948-49 and a champion of black rights in employment and education, died Thursday at a nursing home in Brockton. She was 93 and a former resident of Boston's South End.
Mrs. Lesueur was the first woman to head a branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
She organized demonstrations near the old Dudley Terminal, threatened a boycott of the Boston Elevated Street Railway, predecessor of the MBTA, and led delegations that eventually persuaded officials of the transit system that blacks deserved jobs better than sweepers or porters.
Six black men were hired as Boston Elevated bus drivers and streetcar operators during Mrs. …
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