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.
![About two minutes after I got [to Commerce], I noticed that my name changed from John Carlos to Boy. --Carlos, New York Magazine, 1968](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/jones-april2011-110422173739-phpapp02/85/Racing-Northeast-Texas-28-320.jpg)
Racing Northeast Texas
- 1. Trailer http://vimeo.com/19984989Full: http://vimeo.com/20289812Project Supervisor: Shannon CarterDirected by: Luca MorrazzanoDocumentary by CLiC (Converging Literacies Center, Texas A&M-Commerce)
- 2. February 21, 2011Commerce, Texas
- 3. February 21, 2011Commerce, Texas
- 4. February 25, 2011Selected, Texas Black Film Festival (Dallas)Screening, The Other Side of the TrackDallas, Texas
- 7. 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.
- 25. John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967Commerce, Texas
- 26. Coach Delmer Brown, East Texas State University Track CoachRecruited Carlos and was later (and regularly) accused of racist behavior.
- 27. 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
- 28. About two minutes after I got [to Commerce], I noticed that my name changed from John Carlos to Boy. --Carlos, New York Magazine, 1968
- 30. 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)
- 104. April 17, 2011Texas Historical Marker, Mt. Moriah Temple Baptist ChurchCommerce, Texas