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No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston
- Title
- No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston / Thomas R. Cole.
- Author
- Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 216 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In 1984, Thomas Cole met Eldrewey Stearns in a Galveston psychiatric hospital. Stearns, a fifty-two-year-old Black man, complained that although he felt very important, no one understood him. Over the course of the next decade, Cole and Stearns, in a tumultuous and often painful collaboration, recovered Stearns's life before his slide into mental illness-as a young boy in Galveston and San Augustine and as a civil rights leader and lawyer who sparked Houston's desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963"--
- Series Statement
- Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture
- Uniform Title
- Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
- Subject
- Stearns, Eldrewey
- Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
- 1900-1999
- Civil rights movements > Texas > Houston > History > 20th century
- African American civil rights workers > Texas > Houston > Biography
- Civil rights workers > Texas > Houston > Biography
- Mentally ill > Texas > Houston > Biography
- African American civil rights workers
- Civil rights movements
- Civil rights workers
- Mentally ill
- Race relations
- Houston (Tex.) > Race relations
- Texas > Houston
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Note
- With a new preface by the author.
- First published in 1997 as: No color is my kind: the life of Eldrewey Stearns and the integration of Houston.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Preface to the revised edition -- Part one. Leader at last. Launching a movement -- Blackout in Houston -- Railroads, baseball, and the color line -- "I was going places" -- Part two. A boy from Galveston and San Augustine. Uphome -- Rabbit returns -- Driving Mr. Gus -- Part three. Wandering and return. "They got me, but they can't forget me": a mad odyssey -- Drew and me: recovering separate selves
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1616
- ISBN
- 9781477323731
- 1477323732
- 9781477324653
- 1477324658
- LCCN
- 2020056878
- OCLC
- 1227864034
- Author
- Cole, Thomas R., 1949- author.
- Title
- No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston / Thomas R. Cole.
- Publisher
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
- Edition
- Revised edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and cultureJack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1616