TY  - GEN
T1  - No color is my kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the desegregation of Houston
A1  - Cole, Thomas R., 1949-
LA  - English
PP  - Austin
PB  - University of Texas Press
YR  - 2021
ED  - Revised edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1285779540
AB  - "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"--
OP  - 233
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - F394.H89 N426 2021
SN  - 1477323740
SN  - 9781477323748
SN  - 1477324658
SN  - 9781477324653
SN  - 1477323732
SN  - 9781477323731
KW  - Stearns, Eldrewey.
KW  - Cole, Thomas R., : 1949-
KW  - Stearns, Eldrewey
KW  - Civil rights movements : Texas : Houston : History : 20th century.
KW  - African American civil rights workers : Texas : Houston : Biography.
KW  - Civil rights workers : Texas : Houston : Biography.
KW  - Mentally ill : Texas : Houston : Biography.
KW  - Houston (Tex.) : Race relations.
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme : Texas : Houston : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains : Texas : Houston : Biographies.
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme : Texas : Houston : Biographies.
KW  - Personnes vivant avec un trouble de santé mentale : Texas : Houston : Biographies.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural Heritage
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - Mentally ill
KW  - Race relations
KW  - Texas : Houston
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Houston, mental illness, desegregation, Texas history, race in America, civil rights movement, civil rights leader, desegregation movement, bipolar disorder, civil rights.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
ER  -