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No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston
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- 9780292711983
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Texas Press
ISBN-10
0292711980
ISBN-13
9780292711983
eBay Product ID (ePID)
263607
Product Key Features
Book Title
No Color Is My Kind : the Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston
Number of Pages
285 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Cultural Heritage, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Civil Rights, General, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
26 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
96-044105
Dewey Edition
20
Dewey Decimal
305.8/009764/235
Table Of Content
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart One. Leader at Last1. Launching a Movement2. Blackout in Houston3. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line4. "I Was Going Places"Part Two. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine5. Uphome6. Rabbit Returns7. Driving Mr. GusPart Three. Wandering and Return8. "They Got Me, But They Can't Forget Me": A Mad Odyssey9. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate SelvesAppendix: Interview SourcesNotesReferencesIndex
Synopsis
No Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men--one Jewish and one African American--set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism. In 1984, Thomas Cole discovered 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' life before his slide into madness--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. While other southern cities rocked with violence, Houston integrated its public accommodations peacefully. In these pages appear figures such as Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., Leon Jaworski, and Dan Rather, all of whom--along with Stearns--maneuvered and conspired to integrate the city quickly and calmly. Weaving the tragic story of a charismatic and deeply troubled leader into the record of a major historic event, Cole also explores his emotionally charged collaboration with Stearns. Their poignant relationship sheds powerful and healing light on contemporary race relations in America, and especially on issues of power, authority, and mental illness., An uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men--one Jewish and one African American--set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism.
LC Classification Number
F394.H89N426 1997
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