Dr. Conrad Walter Worrill
FANNIE LOU HAMER
STATUE COMMITTEE
activist, writer, organizer and former talk show host for the
WVON call-in program “On Target.”

Worrill is the Director and Professor at the Jacob H. Carruthers
Center for Inner City Studies of Northeastern Illinois University in
Chicago, Illinois’ historic Bronzeville community, where he has
worked over the last thirty-five years. The Carruthers Center is
one of the leading institutions of higher education in the African
Centered Movement in America.

Dr. Worrill is also a founding member of the National Black
United Front ( NBUF ) and served as its National Chairman for
twenty-four years. He recently stepped down from that position
and now serves as NBUF ’s Chairman Emeritus. Under the
leadership of NBUF, Worrill has been a leading organizer in the
Reparations Movement.

Dr. Conrad Worrill writes a weekly column entitled, “Worrill’s
World,” which appears in several publications around the country
and has a wide fan base.
not-for-profit, non 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,
the Fannie Lou Hamer Statue project.

The FLHSC exists 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.