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082 0 4 _a323.092
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aCole, Thomas R.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aNo Color Is My Kind :
_bEldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston /
_cThomas R. Cole.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (296 p.) :
_b8 b&w photos
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface to the Revised Edition --
_tIntroduction --
_tPART I. Leader at Last --
_tONE. Launching a Movement --
_tTWO. Blackout in Houston --
_tTHREE. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line --
_tFOUR. “I Was Going Places” --
_tPART II. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine --
_tFIVE. Uphome --
_tSIX. Rabbit Returns --
_tSEVEN. Driving Mr. Gus --
_tPART III. Wandering and Return --
_tEIGHT. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey --
_tNINE. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves --
_tAppendix: Interview Sources --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tReferences --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aIn 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns’s conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Color Is My Kind, first published in 1997, introduced readers to Stearns, including his work as a civil rights leader and lawyer in Houston’s desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. This remarkable and important history, however, was nearly lost to bipolar affective disorder. Stearns was a fifty-two-year-old patient in a Galveston psychiatric hospital when Thomas Cole first met him in 1984. Over the course of a decade, Cole and Stearns slowly recovered the details of Stearns’s life before his slide into mental illness, writing a story that is more relevant today than ever. In this new edition, Cole fills in the gaps between the late 1990s and now, providing an update on the progress of civil rights in Houston and Stearns himself. He also reflects on his tumultuous and often painful collaboration with Stearns, challenging readers to be part of his journey to understand the struggles of a Black man’s complex life. At once poignant, tragic, and emotionally charged, No Color Is My Kind is essential reading as the current movement for racial reconciliation gathers momentum.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAfrican American civil rights workers
_zTexas
_zHouston
_vBiography.
650 0 _aCivil rights movements
_zTexas
_zHouston
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aCivil rights workers
_zTexas
_zHouston
_vBiography.
650 0 _aMentally ill
_zTexas
_zHouston
_vBiography.
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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653 _aHouston, mental illness, desegregation, Texas history, race in America, civil rights movement, civil rights leader, desegregation movement, bipolar disorder, civil rights.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/323731
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477323748
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