Your donations can help bring the Memorial Legacy Park vision to life, honoring cooperative history, preserving legacy, and creating a place of reflection and inspiration for generations to come.
Here, you can view proposed designs, memorial features, reflective spaces, and the long-term vision for a place of remembrance and education.
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HONORING LEGACY. INSPIRING GENERATIONS
The Memorial Legacy Project was created to honor the individuals, organizations, and grassroots leaders who helped build and sustain the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund. Located at the Federation’s Rural Training & Research Center in Epes, Alabama, the park will serve as a place of remembrance, reflection, education, and inspiration for future generations. Planned features include a Memorial Wall, cabins dedicated to the 22 founding cooperatives, gardens, walkways, fountains, artistic renderings, gazebos, and other living landmarks celebrating cooperative history, land stewardship, and community empowerment.
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Committee Members
FSC/LAF Executive Director
Cornelius Blanding
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Memorial Legacy Project Committee Chair Emeritus
Charles Prejean (in memoriam)
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Co-Chairs
George Paris Otis Williams
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Committee Members
Carol Zippert, John Zippert, Ray Carpenter, Alice Paris, Wendell Paris, Jerry Pennick, Carmen Prejean, J.C. Shay, Gus Townes
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Staff Liason
Briar Blakley
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FSC/LAF Support Staff
Freddie Davis III, Audrey Haskin, Collie Graddick, Andrew Fuller
Board of Directors
Shirley Blakley President, Mississippi
Daniel Bustamante Vice-President, Texas
Carrie Fulghum Treasurer, Alabama
Satina James Secretary, Georgia
Helen Fields South, Carolina
Raymond Olds, Florida