No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston / Thomas R. Cole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cole, Thomas R., 1949- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stearns, Eldrewey.

Cole, Thomas R., 1949-.

Cole, Thomas R.

Civil rights movements--Texas--Houston--History--20th century.

Civil rights movements.

Houston (Tex.)--Race relations.

Houston (Tex.).

Genre:

History

Biographies

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [2021]

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.

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4773-2375-9

1-4773-2374-0

OCLC:

1291507100