racing northeast texas
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Presentation by Dr. Shannon Carter (Associate Professor of English, Texas A&M-Commerce) concerning research tracing critical race narratives across rural, Northeast Texas (Commerce and Greenville) over the 20th century.TRANSCRIPT
Full: http://vimeo.com/20289812
Trailer http://vimeo.com/19984989
Project Supervisor: Shannon CarterDirected by: Luca MorrazzanoDocumentary by CLiC (Converging Literacies Center, Texas A&M-Commerce)
February 21, 2011
Commerce, Texas
Commerce, Texas
February 21, 2011
Selected, Texas Black Film Festival (Dallas)Screening, “The Other Side of the Track”
February 25, 2011
Dallas, Texas
Filming Billy Reed, Norris Community Documentary (5/13/2010)PhD students Laura and Luca (Texas A&M-Commerce), film this local activist and current president of the Commerce chapter of NAACP speaking on the complexity of race relations in this southern university town.
John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967
Commerce, Texas
Coach Delmer Brown, East Texas State University Track Coach
Recruited Carlos and was later (and regularly) accused of racist behavior.
“Like most Harlem kids, I thought anyplace away from the ghetto would have to be beautiful. . .
Texas was in the South but I was sure it was nothing like Mississippi or Alabama.”
--Carlos, interview with New York Magazine reporter in 1968
“About two minutes after I got [to Commerce], I noticed that my name changed from John Carlos to Boy.”
--Carlos, New York Magazine, 1968
“Thinking about it now, a guy like Carlos lasting a year and a half in a redneck town like Commerce is one of the most amazing records in track and field.”
--Texan at 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, (New York Magazine, November 1968)
April 17, 2011
Texas Historical Marker, Mt. Moriah Temple Baptist ChurchCommerce, Texas