From her arrival in Boston in 1927 until her death at age 94, E. Alice Taylor (1892-1986) served as a business woman, church leader, and Boston NAACP official, leaving a legend of 58 continuous years of community service. For 50 years she served as an officer and board member of the Boston branch of the NAACP. In 1950, when the NAACP's national convention was held in Boston, she walked the streets of the South End and lower Roxbury finding private homes to accommodate the 400 conventioneers not welcome in Boston's hotels. She was the oldest living active member of the Boston NAACP at the time of her death in 1986.