No Color Is My Kind : : Eldrewey Stearns and the Desegregation of Houston / / Thomas R. Cole.
In 1959, a Black man named Eldrewey Stearns was beaten by Houston police after being stopped for a traffic violation. He was not the first to suffer such brutality, but the incident sparked Stearns’s conscience and six months later he was leading the first sit-in west of the Mississippi River. No Co...
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| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Revised Edition
- Introduction
- PART I. Leader at Last
- ONE. Launching a Movement
- TWO. Blackout in Houston
- THREE. Railroads, Baseball, and the Color Line
- FOUR. “I Was Going Places”
- PART II. A Boy from Galveston and San Augustine
- FIVE. Uphome
- SIX. Rabbit Returns
- SEVEN. Driving Mr. Gus
- PART III. Wandering and Return
- EIGHT. “They Got Me, But They Can’t Forget Me”: A Mad Odyssey
- NINE. Drew and Me: Recovering Separate Selves
- Appendix: Interview Sources
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index