A patient in a mental health ward claimed to be Houston’s original civil rights leader....
08/26/1959 - TSU law student Eldrewey Stearns speaks at Houston City Council Wednesday. He claims two HPD officers beat him after his arrest on traffic charges early Sunday.One morning in 1984, while I was sitting with 30 UTMB medical students in a conference reviewing psychiatric cases, a man was brought down from his room on the locked hospital ward.
“What should we make of the patient’s story, his desire to write an autobiography?” I asked, indignant at the omission of the patient’s point of view. The room was silent, as if I hadn’t asked the question. There was many a day, even years later, when I struggled with that same question to the point of despair.
Stearns, an Army veteran, was then a law student at Texas Southern University — brilliant, charismatic, erratic, filled with boundless energy and ambition. On March 4, 1960, he gathered about 15 neatly dressed students around the university’s flagpole. They sang the Star-Spangled Banner, marched to nearby Weingarten’s supermarket, sat down at the lunch counter and demanded to be served. So began theAlthough students were trained in nonviolence, they were haunted by fear of white violence.
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