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On the Local

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Shannon Carter, PhD Associate Professor of English Texas A&M-Commerce

Image: East Texas State Teachers College, 1948 Commerce, Texas Northeast Texas Digital Collections

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Commerce, TX 

Greenville, TX 

Dallas, TX 

Integra6on at “the State’s Most Democra6c College” (1964) 

John Carlos, ETSU Track Team, 1966-1967 (Commerce, Texas)

Black Power Runs Through Commerce 

Wri6ng for (a) Change: Ac6vist Rhetoric through University‐Community Partnerships  (1973‐78) 

Olympics, 1968 (Mexico City)

Old Signs (1921‐65),  New Signs (installed 2008) 

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John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967 Commerce, Texas

John Carlos, Olympics 1968 Mexico City

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John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967 Commerce, Texas

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“Like most Harlem kids, I thought anyplace away from the ghe\o would have to be beau6ful. . .  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 

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“About two minutes a<er I got [to Commerce], I noBced that my name changed from John Carlos to Boy.”   

‐‐Carlos, New York Magazine, 1968 

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“Thinking about it now, a guy like Carlos las6ng 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) 

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Me! 

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Me! 

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