Shannon Carter, PhD Associate Professor of English Texas A&M-Commerce Image: East Texas State Teachers College, 1948 Commerce, Texas Northeast Texas Digital Collections
Shannon Carter, PhD Associate Professor of English Texas A&M-Commerce
Image: East Texas State Teachers College, 1948 Commerce, Texas Northeast Texas Digital Collections
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)
John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967 Commerce, Texas
John Carlos, Olympics 1968 Mexico City
John Carlos, East Texas State University Track Team, 1966-1967 Commerce, Texas
“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
“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
“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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