New Releases by Robert Coles

Examines three groups of "disadvantaged" children from Eskimo, Chicano, and Indian cultures.

A school incident with racial overtones creates problems within a white policeman''s family.

A dramatic portrayal of the helplessness of migrant farm workers'' children an an appeal for legislative action and social concern.

When a black boy is to be shifted from one over-crowded school to another, his mother organizes a protest which results in many students being bused to the good, uncrowded schools on the other side of the city.

Before it was over, they fired him from the little schoolhouse at which he had taught devotedly for ten years. And they fired his wife and two of his sisters and a niece. And they threatened him with bodily harm. And they sued him on trumped-up charges and convicted him in a kangaroo court and left him with a judgment that denied him credit from any bank. And they burned his house to the ground while the fire department stood around watching the flames consume the night. And they stoned the church at which he pastored. And fired shotguns at him out of the dark. But he was not Job, and so he fired back and called the police, who did not come and kept not coming. Then he fled, driving north at eighty-five miles an hour over country roads, until he was across the state line. Soon after, they burned his church to the ground and charged him, for having shot back that night, with felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and so he became an official fugitive from justice. In time, the governor of his state announced they would not pursue this minister who had caused all the trouble, and said of him: Good riddance.