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,...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jezik: | engleski |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2021.
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| Izdanje: | Revised edition. |
| Online pristup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3044886 |
| Sažetak: | "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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| Opis predmeta: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Opis fizičkog objekta: | 1 online resource (233 p.) |
| ISBN: | 1477323740 9781477323748 1477324658 9781477324653 1477323732 9781477323731 |