{"id":1,"date":"2008-04-02T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T10:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-04-10T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T19:32:05","slug":"the-speed-city-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8floz.net\/speedcity\/2008\/04\/02\/the-speed-city-era\/","title":{"rendered":"History San Jos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Speed City Era<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Athletics at San Jos\u00e9 State College, 1940 to 1969<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

History San Jos\u00e9 Exhibit Opens at City Hall in downtown San Jos\u00e9<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Jos\u00e9, California \u2013 June 24, 2008<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone remembers the raised fists of John Carlos and Tommie Smith on the dais at the Olympic Games in 1968 in Mexico City. But it is the athletic program at San Jos\u00e9 State College in the post World War II era that was the prequel to the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History San Jos\u00e9 is presenting the exhibition Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black Power <\/em>at San Jos\u00e9 City Hall. The exhibition, which had been on display at the Pacific Hotel in History Park, has traveled to the wing of City Hall where it has greatly enlarged to include even more artifacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a powerful story about civil rights,\u201d said Alida Bray, President and CEO of History San Jos\u00e9. \u201cWe are excited to have the opportunity to bring it to City Hall where it will be accessible to a broad cross section of the community. It is important to acknowledge the people and the role that San Jos\u00e9 State\u2019s athletics program played, both locally and globally.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The exhibit is an in-depth examination of American sport in an era that spans the aftermath of World War II through America’s tumultuous involvement in Vietnam. The exhibition focuses on San Jos\u00e9 State College’s (now San Jos\u00e9 State University) athletic program, from which many student athletes became globally recognized figures as the Civil Rights and Black Power movements reshaped American society. San Jos\u00e9 State was selected as the focus of the exhibit as several Spartans became principal figures during this period of dramatic social transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speed City: From Civil Rights to Black <\/em>Power will be in the San Jos\u00e9 City Hall, 200 East Santa Clara Street between Fourth and Sixth Streets, in downtown San Jos\u00e9. The term, Speed City, <\/em>was coined by a San Jos\u00e9 sports writer to describe the phenomenal success of San Jos\u00e9 State coaches and athletes in track and field during the 1950s. These athletes and their coaches were unusually ethnically diverse for university teams at that time, and their accomplishments were earned in spite of wide spread racism toward all people of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urla Hill <\/strong>is the Guest Exhibition Curator. She holds B.A. s in African-American Studies and Journalism from San Jos\u00e9 State University; an M.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Sciences from San Francisco State University; and will earn a Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Maryland at College Park. Hill has been conducting original research on Speed City since she left her job as a sports reporter and copy editor for Gannett Rochester Newspapers, Rochester, N.Y. She has lectured and written extensively on Speed City, Black Athletes, and Women\u2019s Sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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About History San Jos\u00e9:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

History San Jos\u00e9 is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the continuing history of the Santa Clara Valley. HSJ manages one of the largest and most comprehensive regional history collections in the State of California, from 1784 Spanish governmental records to twenty-first century Silicon Valley technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

History San Jos\u00e9 <\/strong>1650 Senter Road San Jos\u00e9, CA 95112
historysanjose.org<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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