A Different Drummer is the story of a black man, Tucker Caliban, who, acting on what some believe is divine advice, throws everything away to touch off a Biblical exodus of his Southern state's black farmers, field hands, and ex-slaves. Tucker burns his home, kills his stock, and salts his fields in an act of divine wrath meant to lay the foundation for a new world order. The novel is an allegory for the Civil Rights campaigns of the 1960s.
Chief Joseph: War Chief of the Nez Perce is a historical text about Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce, whose tribe resisted the United State's attempts to remove them from their home in Wallowa Valley in Oregon. U.S. Army General Oliver Howard chased Chief Joseph and his people more than 1,000 miles through Idaho, Wyoming and Montana until they finally surrendered in 1877 near the Canadian border. The book documents the moral injustices and evils of US Indian removal and Chief Joseph's tribe's attempts to defend themselves.