Bibliograph

No color is my kind, Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston, Thomas Cole

Type

Label

No color is my kind, Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston, Thomas Cole

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-207) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No color is my kind

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1243351001

Responsibility statement

Thomas Cole

Sub title

Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston

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"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of 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

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