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No color is my kind : the life of Eldrewey Stearns and the integration of Houston
- Title
- No color is my kind : the life of Eldrewey Stearns and the integration of Houston / Thomas R. Cole.
- Author
- Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, ©1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | F394.H89 N426 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xv, 239 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- No Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men - one Jewish and one African American - set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism. In 1984, Thomas Cole discovered 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' life before his slide into madness - 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.
- Weaving the tragic story of a charismatic and deeply troubled leader into the record of a major historic event, Cole also explores his emotionally charged collaboration with Stearns. Their poignant relationship sheds powerful and healing light on contemporary race relations in America, and especially on issues of power, authority, and mental illness.
- 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.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Earl Allen. -- Gus Isadore Arnold. -- A.W. Beal. -- Guy Boudois. -- Frank Bryant. -- Lewis Cutrer. -- Bob Dundas. -- James Farmer. -- Saul Friedman. -- Galveston. -- Joe Gayden. -- Curtis Graves. -- Herbert Hamilton. -- Roy Hofheinz. -- Holly Hogrobrooks. -- Theodore Hogrobrooks. -- Andrew Jefferson. -- John t. JOnes. -- Hamah King. -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- Otis King. -- Bill Lawson. -- Charles Lee. -- Deanna Lott. -- Thurgood Marshall. -- Quentin Mease. -- Samuel Nabrit. -- Dan Rather. -- Frank Reed. -- Harold Stovall. -- Hobart Taylor. -- George Washington Jr. -- Aloysius Wickliff.
- ISBN
- 0292711972
- 9780292711976
- 0292711980
- 9780292711983
- LCCN
- 96044105
- OCLC
- ocm35593624
- 35593624
- SCSB-2119773
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library