From the mid-1920s through the 1950s, brothers Silas F. and Balcom S. Taylor, Registered Pharmacists, championed voter registration, jobs, housing, and political participation for Blacks in Boston, when there were no elected Black officials in city or state government. Their drugstore on Tremont Street ( Lincoln Pharmacy) served also as a place for building a community network, 'providing a voice' for Black neighborhoods at City Hall and the State House. Silas (Shag) Taylor, who served briefly on the state Parole Board, was the most powerful Democrat in the Black wards of Boston from the 1930s until his death in the late 1950s.