{"product_id":"no-color-is-my-kind-the-life-of-eldrewey-stearns-and-the-integration-of-houston-9780292711983","title":"No Color Is My Kind: The Life of Eldrewey Stearns and the Integration of Houston","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo Color Is My Kind is an uncommon chronicle of identity  fate  and compassion as two menone Jewish and one African Americanset 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 madnessas a young boy in Galveston and San Augustine and as a civil rights leader and lawyer who sparked Houstons desegregation movement between 1959 and 1963. While other southern cities rocked with violence  Houston integrated its public accommodations peacefully. In these pages appear figures such as Thurgood Marshall  Martin Luther King  Jr.  Leon Jaworski  and Dan Rather  all of whomalong with Stearnsmaneuvered and conspired to integrate the city quickly and calmly. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45275458863157,"sku":"ByrdShop_0292711980","price":96.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780292711983.jpg?v=1780507440","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/no-color-is-my-kind-the-life-of-eldrewey-stearns-and-the-integration-of-houston-9780292711983","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}