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Memphis

Since 1992, our Memphis office has provided professional development and resources for over 4,804 area teachers. These educators have reached 356,300 students in 627 schools throughout Memphis, Chattanooga, and Louisville, Kentucky.

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Our content and methodology enhance the goals and objectives of Tennessee's state frameworks, including history/social science and English/language arts, and the Common Core State Standards. Our semester-long Facing History high school elective course has been certified by the Tennessee Department of Education and is currently taught in 25 high schools. The Shelby County Schools have adopted Facing History units as a mandate for the social studies curriculum in grades 6-8. We also have a robust presence in independent and parochial schools.

Lessons and resources help you explore the events and local activism that brought Dr. King to Memphis in the spring of 1968. 

Memphis Neighborhood Schools Network

These schools foster the environment needed for students to succeed academically and professionally, and become engaged members of society.

Download Our Info Sheet

This take-away document tells you what we've got going on locally and how you can help us grow our work in the Memphis area.

News and Announcements

Message from Roger Brooks: Teaching About Charlottesville
August 14, 2017

Resources to help educators manage the difficult conversations around the bigotry and hatred demonstrated by white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, VA.

Videos

Get to know our work through stories told by teachers, students, scholars, and partnering organizations.

Civil Rights Field Trip

Mahal shares her experiences on a field trip to Memphis’ National Civil Rights Museum.
Claude Steele presents at 2012 Memphis Urban Education Conference

Claude Steele presents at 2012 Memphis Urban Education Conference.
Facing History student Brittney S. at 2012 Memphis Urban Education Conference

Student Brittney S. reads her poem "My Journey," about choosing a path to greatness, at the 2012 Memphis Urban Education Conference.

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Memphis Events

Professional Development

2018

June

  • 19
    The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy
    Seminar
    Tennessee
    $30.00

    Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.

    The Reconstruction Era and the Fragility of Democracy

    This workshop explores the Reconstruction era in the United States and the construction of American identity.

     

    6.19.18 - 6.21.18
    8:00 am - 3:00 pm
    Staff Development Building, John Ross Room
    1161 West 40th St
    Chattanooga, TN 37410

July

  • 17
    Choices in Little Rock
    Workshop
    Mississippi
    $0.00

    Find details on how to register or pay for Facing History professional development, payment options, help with costs, refunds, and the Facing History Educator Network.

    Choices in Little Rock: An Approach to Teaching the Civil Rights Movement

    In 1957, nine black teenagers faced the threats of angry mobs when they attempted to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The desegregation of Central High following Brown v. Board of Education ignited a crisis historian Taylor Branch describes as “the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War.” Facing History’s unit explores civic choices—the decisions people, including young people, make as citizens in a democracy. Those decisions, both then and now, reveal  that democracy is not a product but a work in progress, a work that is shaped by the choices that we make about ourselves and others.
    7.17.18 - 7.19.18
    8:30 am - 3:30 pm
    Rankin County School District
    200 School Rd
    Brandon, MS 39042

Community Events

2018

October

  • 29
    2018 Memphis Benefit Dinner
    Benefit
    Tennessee

    2018 Memphis Benefit Dinner

    Facing History and Ourselves reaches millions of students worldwide every year. Using the lessons of history—and history in the making—Facing History equips teachers to help students confront prejudice, racism, and antisemitism, empowering them to become adults who change the world for the better.

    Save the date for Monday, October 29, and join us at the annual Facing History Memphis Benefit Dinner to support our work in Memphis and around the world.

    Memphis Hilton
    939 Ridge Lake Boulevard
    Memphis, TN 38120
    10.29.18
    6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Facing History, Memphis Advisory Board

Tina Fockler, Chair

Toney Armstrong
Joey Beckford
Janice Berlin
Paul Berz*
Phyllis Berz**
Reggie Crenshaw
John Daniel
Jerry Ehrlich
Tara Engelberg
Mimi Grossman
Kerry Hayes
Ann Hawkins**
Mason Hawkins
Carol Johnson**
Dorothy Johnson
Elaine Kaufman
Marty Kelman**
Daniel Kiel
Meggan Kiel
Jenny Koltnow
Don Levy
Joanna Lipman
Leigh Mansberg
Joyce Margulies
Erin Ostrow**
Adrienne Pakis-Gillon
Iddo Patt
Kimberly Perry
Will Perry
Doug Schrank
Glenn Sessoms**
Linda Ellen Sklar
Joan Terry
Andie Uiberall
Megan Weinstein
Monica Wharton
Barbara Williams
Rachel Shankman, Emeritus
Susan Mallory, Emeritus

* Board of Directors
** Leadership Council

Contact Us

115 Huling Avenue
Memphis, TN 38103
United States

901-452-1776

[email protected]

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