Letcher L. Yarbrough (1908-1992) was a civil rights activist in Seattle, serving as president of the Seattle branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the mid-1940s, and later as state president. Yarbrough was active in many civil/human rights organizations and committees, including the National Conference of Christians and Jews, Seattle Army Terminal Standing Grievance Committee, Christian Friends for Racial Equality and The Urban League.

Here, Yarbrough, left, stands with lawyer Thurgood Marshall at an event at Mount Zion Baptist Church on 19th Avenue and East Madison Street in Seattle's Central District neighborhood. A few year earlier Marshall founded and became the executive director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. He would go on to become the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

Caption information source: Lester Yarbrough obituary, Saettle Times, October 21, 1992.