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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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Cole, Thomas R., 1949- (Awdur)
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
Iaith:Saesneg
Cyhoeddwyd: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021.
Rhifyn:Revised edition.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3044886
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • 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