No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston /
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, recov...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
[2021].
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| Edition: | Revised edition. |
| Series: | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture.
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| 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. |
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| Item Description: | 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. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 216 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781477323731 1477323732 9781477324653 1477324658 |