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.

1. Trailer http://vimeo.com/19984989 Full: http://vimeo.com/20289812 Project Supervisor: Shannon Carter Directed by: Luca Morrazzano Documentary by CLiC (Converging Literacies Center, Texas A&M-Commerce)

2. February 21, 2011 Commerce, Texas

3. February 21, 2011 Commerce, Texas

4. February 25, 2011 Selected, Texas Black Film Festival (Dallas) Screening, “The Other Side of the Track” Dallas, 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, 1966-1967 Commerce, Texas

26. Coach Delmer Brown, East Texas State University Track Coach Recruited 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, 2011 Texas Historical Marker, Mt. Moriah Temple Baptist Church Commerce, Texas