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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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2021.
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| Vydání: | Revised edition. |
| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3044886 |
Obsah:
- 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