No color is my kind Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston
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. Wanderi...
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University of Texas Press
2021
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| Ausgabe: | Revised edition |
| Schriftenreihe: | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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 "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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| Beschreibung: | 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 |
| Beschreibung: | xiv, 216 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781477323731 978-1-4773-2373-1 9781477324653 978-1-4773-2465-3 |