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SENATE RESOLUTION NO. 9
BY SENATOR BOUDREAUX
A RESOLUTION
To commend and congratulate Fredrick "Fred" Prejean Sr. on being named by the
Community Foundation of Acadiana as the 2020 recipient of the Lafayette Civic
Cup.
WHEREAS, the Lafayette Civic Cup sponsored by the Community Foundation of
Acadiana, awarded since 1933, is presented to individuals annually based upon leadership,
innovation, and the desire to make Lafayette better; and
WHEREAS, the recipient for 2020 is Fredrick "Fred" Prejean Sr. who has engaged
in a lifetime of humanitarian pursuits, and who is president of Move the Mindset, an
organization committed to promoting racial and social justice in Lafayette, which was
founded in 2016 and has successfully advocated for the removal of the Alfred Mouton statue
in downtown Lafayette; and
WHEREAS, born and raised in Lafayette and growing up in the section known as
Fightingville, he attended St. Paul's and Holy Rosary Institute and at age seventeen, traveled
to the 1963 March on Washington and witnessed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a
Dream" speech, an experience which transformed him; and
WHEREAS, following six years in the Marine Corps Reserve, Fred Prejean enrolled
at Southern University, where he became one of the leaders of a peaceful demonstration
when the state legislature was considering its closure to desegregate higher education
institutions, graduating in 1974 with a degree in accounting and business management; and
WHEREAS, he also attended the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington,
and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University in Durham, North
Carolina; and
WHEREAS, his community activism spans more than fifty years, having trained as
a community organizer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Congress of Racial Equality, and his work through
Southern Consumers Cooperative helped black entrepreneurs launch startup businesses; and
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WHEREAS, Fred has also served the community as the committee chairperson for
the Heymann Scholarship Academic Awards, chairperson of the Lafayette Planning and
Zoning Commission, the Holy Rosary Institute Restoration Committee, a member of the
Lafayette chapter of the NAACP, the Greater Southwest Louisiana Black Chamber of
Commerce, the Lafayette Housing Advisory Committee, the Lafayette General Advisory
Panel, the Lafayette North Plan Coordinating Team, the Lafayette Growth Opportunity
Technical Team, the Veazey-McComb Neighborhood Organization, the Freetown-Port Rico
Neighborhood Organization, the Heymann Foundation Scholarship Division, the Lafayette
Neighborhood Economic Development Corporation, the Sterling Grove Housing
Development, and the Holy Family School Board; and
WHEREAS, the McComb-Veazey and Freetown-Port Rico neighborhood
organizations were formed during his tenure with the planning and zoning commission; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Prejean also served as undersecretary at the Louisiana Department
of Wildlife and Fisheries and retired in 2012 as president of the consulting firm Empire
Management Inc., thereafter working through Move the Mindset to educate residents, form
partnerships, and collaborate with the Equal Justice Initiative; and
WHEREAS, Fred has been married to his wife Ola for forty-three years, and they
have one daughter and two grandsons; and
WHEREAS, the success of the state of Louisiana, the strength of our communities,
and the overall vitality of American society depend, in great measure, upon good, strong,
driven, and humanitarian men like Fredrick "Fred" Prejean Sr.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Senate of the Legislature of Louisiana
does hereby commend and congratulate Fredrick "Fred" Prejean Sr. on being named by the
Community Foundation of Acadiana as the 2020 recipient of the Lafayette Civic Cup.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution be transmitted to
Frederick "Fred" Prejean Sr.
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
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