University of Virginia Library

ROBERT COLES PAPERS, #4333, 1954-1990

Correspondence and writings of Coles, child psychiatrist, educator, social activist, writer and professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard University. A leading authority on poverty, racial discrimination, and minority children, Coles won recognition for his book Children of Crisis: A Study in Courage and Fear, based on his study of African-American children in the South in the 1960s.