Three Who Dared (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Tom Cohen
- First Published: 1969
- Time of Work: 1932–1966
- Setting: Alabama, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New York City, Ohio, and Tennessee
- Principal Characters: Henry M. Aronson, John O’Neal, Eric Weinberger
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, Social reform, South or Southerners, Protests or demonstrations, Lawyers, Nonviolence, Biography, Jews and Gentiles
- Locales: New York, NY, Connecticut, Ohio, Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Illinois, New Hampshire
Form and Content
With Three Who Dared, Tom Cohen has written a book that fits into several categories. Primarily, it is a collection of three limited sketches of young men whose stories are related to one another through the book’s overarching theme: their participation in the emerging Civil Rights movement and their fight against racial discrimination. Secondarily, the work is a selective history of the early Civil Rights movement in the American South. Yet it is also a compilation of vignettes on human behavior as seen through very personal eyes. Indeed, the book...
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