MS. SUSAN REEP
FANNIE LOU HAMER STATUE COMMITTEE
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Susan Reep is an educator, photographer and artist. She is retired
from teaching 7th grade in Bakersfield, CA, where she coached junior
high students in history day projects that included the Little Rock Nine:
Foot Soldiers for Freedom; Martin Luther King, Jr. and Satyagraha;
Branch Rickey and the Integration of Baseball; Remembering the
Titans; and The Triumphs and Tragedies of Fannie Lou Hamer. The
Little Rock Nine video won first in the nation. She currently works as
an artist whose work can be viewed at susanreep.com.
Please click on DVD to view youtube video
Hamer Flamekeepers Ali and Allie are second row centered among nearly 100 Veterans of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement March 3, 2007. Susan Reep served as advisors for Ali and Allie.
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political organization comprised of local, regional and national
civil rights activists, scholars and community leaders who serve
as fundraising and educational ambassadors in conjunction with
the City of Ruleville, public, private and individual initiatives to
help achieve the goals of the Fannie Lou Hamer Statue project.
The Fannie Lou Hamer Statute Committee (FLHSC) exist solely
for the purpose of supporting efforts to honor and pay tribute
to Mrs. Hamer by commissioning the construction of a full-length
statue of the civil and human rights leader, to be placed on
permanent display at the Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden in
Ruleville, Mississippi.
The National Black United Fund (NBUF) is our fiscal sponsor for
this project. To make a tax-deductible donation for The Fannie
Lou Hamer Statue please click below.