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SOUTHERN ELECTIONS FUND.
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A SEF brochure notes that "the big race against Southern congressmen and Senators cannot be won until a solid base is laid county to county."
The Fund is a non-partisan organization. All disbursements are decided by a 14-member Board of Trustees whose members include Bond; Dr. John Cashin, Chairman of the predominately black National Democratic Party of Alabama; Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm; Detroit Congressman John Conyers; Lawrence Guyot, former chairman of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; John Lewis, Director of the Voter Education Project; Attorney Charles Morgan, Jr., Director of the Southern Regional office of American Civil Liberties Union; anti-war activist Martin Peretz; the Rev. Channing Phillips, "favorite son" candidate for President from Washington D.C., at the 1968 Democratic Convention; Clarence Townes, former Deputy Director of the Republican National Committee; Mrs. Anne Wexler, a strategist in the 1968 McCarthy for President campaign; Dr. Gayraud Wilmore, Commission of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.; Tallulah, Louisiana Town Marshall Zelma Wyche, and the Rev. Andrew Young, Black Democratic nominee for Congress from Georgia's Fifth District.
None of the Board members are eligible to receive SEF funds. "While there are several committees and fund raising money for

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