 He led the organization's fight against the National Accreditation Council of agencies for the blind which attempted to discredit the Federation and block agency reforms.After his presidency, Jernigan edited and contributed to over a dozen of books of stories about blind people, known as kernel books, which contain true stories about life experiences of federation members.Following Jernigan's death, Maurer continued to edit Kernel Books, of which over 30 have now been released.