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Events

  • 63rd Anniversary of NOLA Public School Desegregation Gala
    63rd Anniversary of NOLA Public School Desegregation Gala
    Fri, Nov 17
    Tate, Etienne, & Prevost Center
    63rd Anniversary of NOLA Public School Desegregation Gala
    Nov 17, 2023, 7:00 PM – 11:00 PM
    Tate, Etienne, & Prevost Center, 5909 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
    A Celebration in honor of the 63rd Anniversary of New Orleans Public School Desegregation.
    Details
  • LTFC Blazing the Trail Bus Ride: The US Marshals Museum
    LTFC Blazing the Trail Bus Ride: The US Marshals Museum
    Fri, Jul 14
    Tate, Etienne, & Prevost Center
    LTFC Blazing the Trail Bus Ride: The US Marshals Museum
    Jul 14, 2023, 6:00 AM CDT – Jul 17, 2023, 12:00 AM CDT
    Tate, Etienne, & Prevost Center, 5909 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
    An exciting bus tour to Ft. Smith, Arkansas, with Civil Rights Pioneer Dr. Leona Tate to visit the new US Marshals Museum and National Learning Center.
    Details
  • NOLA Public School Desegregation Anniversary Gala
    NOLA Public School Desegregation Anniversary Gala
    Fri, Nov 18
    New Orleans
    NOLA Public School Desegregation Anniversary Gala
    Nov 18, 2022, 6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
    New Orleans, 5909 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
    A Celebration in honor of the 62nd Anniversary of New Orleans Public School Desegregation.
    Details
  • The TEP Talk Series: New Orleans Public School Desegregation and The Family Dynamic
    The TEP Talk Series: New Orleans Public School Desegregation and The Family Dynamic
    Wed, Jul 27
    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99230760773?pwd=M
    The TEP Talk Series: New Orleans Public School Desegregation and The Family Dynamic
    Jul 27, 2022, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM CDT
    https://us06web.zoom.us/j/99230760773?pwd=M
    The TEP Talk Series is a monthly forum highlighting untold stories of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans and connecting them to present social justice issues. Our focus is to teach history from the first-person accounts of those who lived it. The history that took place at the historic TEP.
    Details
  • TEP Center Ribbon Cutting
    TEP Center Ribbon Cutting
    Wed, May 04
    Tate Etienne & Prevost Center
    TEP Center Ribbon Cutting
    May 04, 2022, 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM CDT
    Tate Etienne & Prevost Center , 5909 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA 70117, USA
    Celebrating the renovation project transforming Historic McDonogh 19 Elementary School into the Tate Etienne & Prevost Center.
    Details

Programs

Ringing the Bell

Ringing the Bell is a  professional development presentation for teachers that presents the need for teachers to include Civil Rights lessons into core curriculum standards. The program is designed to address the following learning objectives:

  • To DEMONSTRATE the value of Civil Rights/African-American history lessons to students

  • To IDENTIFY strategies to incorporate Civil Rights’ and African American history lessons across all subject areas

  • To UNDERSTAND Leona Tate’s role as a Civil Rights’ Pioneer

  • To IDENTIFY the stories housed at the Lower 9th Ward Living Museum

  • To UNDERSTAND the People’s Institute of Survival and Beyond role in addressing structural racism.

To learn more about this program email programs@tepcenter.org

An historic cast-iron school bell, approximately 25 inches in diameter, mounted on a sturdy wooden frame and placed outdoors. The bell is in shadow, and behind it are green hedges, leafy green trees, and a clear blue sky.

TEP Talks

The TEP Talk Series is a monthly forum highlighting untold stories of the Civil Rights Movement in New Orleans and connecting them to present social justice issues. 

Topics include:

  • Reproductive Justice 

  • Black History is American History

  • Gender Equity

  • Healthcare Equity 

  • Housing Equity

  • LGBTQ+ Rights and Equality

  • The Family 

  • Disaster Justice

  • Children’s Topics 

  • Food Equity

  • Education Equity

  • Human Rights

TEP Talks are made possible by the generous support of the Mellon Foundation Humanities in Place Program.

Leona Tate, wearing beige pants and a brown and gold patterned top, walks down the entry stairs outside the TEP Center on a sunny day.

TEP Tours

The TEP Center is open Monday through Friday 10 am - 3 pm. Last tour begins at 2 pm. Groups of 10 or more please email tours@tepcenter.org

Street view of the newly remodeled TEP Center, a wide, three-story former public school building in beige brick, against a clear blue sky, with two large trees in front of it.
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