No Color Is My Kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston, Pape…

No Color Is My Kind : Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston, Paperback by Cole, Thomas R., ISBN 1477323732, ISBN-13 9781477323731, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US “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”–