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.

1. Image: East Texas State Teachers College, 1948 Commerce, Texas Northeast Texas Digital Collections Shannon Carter, PhD Associate Professor of English Texas A&M-Commerce

2. Commerce, TX Greenville, TX John Carlos, ETSU Track Team, 1966-1967 (Commerce, Texas) Integration at “the State’s Most Democratic College” (1964) Olympics, 1968 (Mexico City) Black Power Runs Through Commerce Old 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.