Professor of Geography at the University of Tennessee. He is a cultural and historical geographer interested in race relations, public memory, popular culture, and heritage tourism in the American South. Much of his work focuses on the rights of African Americans to claim the power to commemorate the past and shape cultural landscapes as part of a broader goal of social and spatial justice.

Associate Professor of Social Science Education at the University of Tennessee, and the primary K-12 professional for the institute. His research interests include the teaching and learning of social studies, particularly through films and social issues, experiential learning such as field trips and service-learning projects, standards-based educational reforms, and literacy in social studies.

Assistant Professor of Geography at Northwest Missouri State University, Dr. Bottone is a historical geographer by training, with interests in tourism, mobility, and race. His dissertation research explored landscapes and mobility networks of the Green Book, a Jim Crow-era travel guide developed and used by black travelers.

Holds a joint appointment in the Department of Global Studies and Human Geography and the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Middle Tennessee State University. Her research interests include black geographies, critical geographies, translational routes/roots of race and gender, women’s gender and sexuality studies, and social and political movements.

GIS Outreach Coordinator and Instructor of Geographic Information Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Mr. Camponovo has extensive experience working with K-12 teachers to incorporate GIS methods into their classrooms.

Professor of Geography at Pennsylvania State University with a joint appointment at Penn State’s Rock Ethics Institute. His research seeks to understand the social, political, and economic structures that make human lives vulnerable to all manner of exploitations, as well as how oppressed populations use social justice movements to change their material conditions.

Associate Professor of Geography and Director of the Geographic Information Sciences Laboratory at Tennessee State University. His research interests are in environmental justice, regional equity and livable communities.

Mr. Booker is a prominent civil rights activist in Knoxville. As a student of Knoxville College, he organized sit-ins in downtown Knoxville. He is a historian of the urban renewal movement that destroyed the black community in Knoxville.

Professor of Geography at Sam Houston State University. His research focuses on urban geographies of race and their intersections with art and music. Dr. Strait will facilitate a guided tour of Memphis’ Beale Street, a center of black life and music.

Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Studies and International Programs for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at North Carolina State University. Her research explores the history of African American social movements, specifically centering on mobility as a civil right.

Associate Professor of Retail, Hospitality and Tourism Management at the University of Tennessee. Her research interests include social equity in tourism around the intersectionality of race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability.

Associate Professor of History at the University of Tennessee. His research interests are the nineteenth-century United States, with specialties in the broad Civil War era, religion and politics, as well as slavery and emancipation.

Executive Director of the Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change at the University of Memphis. A native of Fayette County, TN, and the daughter of local civil rights activists, Ms. McFerren will help lead participants in a tour of sites associated with civil rights’ struggles in the region, particularly those related to the Fayette County tent city.

Project Coordinator for the University of Tennessee's Center for the Study of War and Society. Tinker manages the day-to-day operations of the Center, including the Veterans Oral History Project, the World War II archival collection, and communications with the Center’s network of veterans, historians, teachers, and the public.