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Meet the author, Eli Saslow, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist, being released in September. Saslow's book details how a small community of college students helped change the heart and mind of the heir apparent to America's white nationalist movement.  Eli will be in conversation with Maureen Loughnane, Executive Director of the Chicago office of Facing History and Ourselves.

Come to Our Open House Resource Party for Previously Trained Facing History Teachers!

Are you a Facing History-trained CPS educator? If you have attended PD for Choices in Little Rock (8th grade social studies), Holocaust and Human Behavior (high school World History), or The Reconstruction Era (high school American History), come to our open house to receive your updated resources designed exclusively for CPS and learn more about the CPS Curriculum Project!

Mingle with CPS colleagues and Facing History staff and receive:

Register today for our Facing History Now forum featuring Dr. Eve Ewing, a poet, a writer, a former Facing History teacher, and now a sociologist of education at the University of Chicago, and Dr. Terrence Roberts, one of the “Little Rock Nine” who desegregated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957. Together they will discuss the legacies of the civil rights era on our city and our current education system.

Eve Ewing's new book Ghosts in the Schoolyard will be available for purchase at the event. 

This is the moment. Young people have always been -  and are today - at the forefront of social movements that have transformed societies around the world. Facing History and Ourselves gives young people, through our work with educators and in schools, the tools they need to be agents for change.

Save the date of Thursday, April 11, 2019 for our Chicago Benefit Lunch celebrating the power of youth agency, voice, and civic engagement. Together we can help the next generation face history NOW.