After the NAACP was outlawed in 1956, John L. LeFlore and the Non-Partisan Voters League took a more active role in civil rights in Mobile. LeFlore served as the league's director of casework. He was a plaintiff in Bolden vs. Mobile, and the judgement changed Mobile's city government to a mayor-council system. In 1974, he was elected as a state representative. The office of the Non-Partisan Voters League was located upstairs in the Masonic building.