The Life and Legacy of Ned Cobb
Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts & HumanitiesNed Cobb, born in Tallapoosa County in 1885, was an African-American tenant farmer and member of the Alabama Sharecroppers’ Union. From the 1930s on, he fought for the rights of poor farmers in the South. In 1969, Theodore Rosengarten came to Alabama to search for and interview surviving members of...