No color is my kind
the life of Eldrewey Stearns and the integration of Houston
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Word Count
59,750 words, Guess
Page Count
239 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1004390M
- ISBN-100292711972
- OCLC Control Number35593624
- OCLC Control Numbernocolorismykindl0000cole
- Library of Congress Control Number96044105
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- Goodreads1151140
- LibraryThing1307748
Classifications
- DDC305.8/009764/235
- LCCF394.H89 N426 1997
Description
No Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity, fate, and compassion as two men - one Jewish and one African American - set out to rediscover a life lost to manic depression and alcoholism. In 1984, Thomas Cole discovered 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' life before his slide into madness - 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. Weaving the tragic story of a charismatic and deeply troubled leader into the record of a major historic event, Cole also explores his emotionally charged collaboration with Stearns. Their poignant relationship sheds powerful and healing light on contemporary race relations in America, and especially on issues of power, authority, and mental illness.
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