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The director of the Facing History and Ourselves office in Memphis, Tennessee, was honored over the weekend for her significant contributions to the city in the area of race relations. Rachel Shankman was one of seven women to receive the 2012 Ruby...
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“From the early years of the 20th century to well past its middle age, nearly every black family in the American south, which meant nearly every black family in America, had a decision to make.” – Isabel Wilkerson, The Warmth of Other SunsIsabel...
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Consider it a book club on a huge scale.
That’s what the Commercial Appeal daily newspaper is hoping to create with its fall serialization of the New York Times bestselling book, Outcasts United. For six weeks this fall, the Memphis, Tennessee,...
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Memphians know what it’s like to live in a city where it is common for high school graduates to go off to college, and never move back home. The stakes are high: with each student that relocates, the city loses valuable hands, hearts, and minds...
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Fall is a busy time, often filled with new beginnings as well as the return to old routines: back to school, back to work, back home for the holidays. At Facing History and Ourselves, fall marks the return of teachers and students to classrooms, and...
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Facing History's Steven Becton leads Memphis school teachers through 'Choosing to Participate' exhibit.Memphis, TN - High school students across the country take history courses in many different forms every day: World History, United States History...
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We recently had the opportunity to talk with Alexa LeBeouf, who this spring completed a year and a half internship in the Facing History and Ourselves regional office in Memphis, Tennessee.Born in Austin, Texas, and raised in both Austin and Dallas...
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At the end of the weeklong Facing History civil rights trip, Reverend Kyles challenged the twenty students, who had been studying the men and women of the civil rights movement: “So, you know what they did,” he said. “What are you going to do?” Six...
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For the second time since 1998, Facing History’s nationally acclaimed initiative Choosing to Participate will travel to Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library in Memphis this September. The centerpiece of this initiative is a multimedia exhibition that...
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On August 4, the final day of this year’s Student Seminar, alumni from Wooddale, Ridgeway, and White Station joined current Facing History student group members and staff at Rhodes College for the Alumni-Student Partnership. Students from White...
