East Texas State Teachers College integrated in the mid-1960s, including track star John Carlos who competed in the 1968 Olympics. The document discusses the integration of the formerly all-white college, Carlos' activism including raising a black power salute at the 1968 Olympics, and a current project developing a website to remix digitized primary sources on race relations in rural Texas from that era.
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1. Image: East Texas State Teachers College, 1948Commerce, TexasNortheast Texas Digital CollectionsShannon Carter, PhDAssociate Professor of EnglishTexas A&M-Commerce
2. Commerce, TXGreenville, TXJohn Carlos, ETSU Track Team, 1966-1967 (Commerce, Texas)Integration at the States Most Democratic College (1964)Olympics, 1968(Mexico City)Black Power Runs Through CommerceOld Signs (1921-65), New Signs (installed 2008)Writing for (a) Change: Activist Rhetoric through University-Community Partnerships (1973-78)Dallas, TX
3. To support: The development of a prototype for facilitating the "remixing" of various types of digitized primary sources for Web presentations on the history of race and race relations in rural Texas.