Theodore Rosengarten oral history interviews and other recordings, 1971-1977.

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Theodore Rosengarten oral history interviews and other recordings, 1971-1977.

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The collection consists of 47 audiocassette tapes, most of which contain interviews conducted by Theodore Rosengarten with Ned Cobb and other members of the Cobb family. The interviews describe Cobb's life as a sharecropper, then independent farmer, in east-central Alabama, his involvement with the Alabama Sharecroppers Union, his 12-year imprisonment for shooting at sheriff's deputies intent on seizing a neighbor's livestock, and his life after leaving prison. Included are 18 tapes of interviews with Ned Cobb, 20 tapes of interviews with his family, and five tapes of interviews with unidentified persons. There is also a small number of tapes containing music and other recordings.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 8082672

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Cobb family.

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Rosengarten, Theodore

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Author; interviewee b. 1944. From the description of Reminiscences of Theodore Rosengarten : lecture, 1976. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309724149 Theodore Rosengarten (1944- ) graduated from Amherst College in 1966 and received his Ph.D. in American civilization from Harvard University in 1975. In 1969, in the course of his research on the Alabama Sharecroppers Union in Tallapoosa County, Ala., he met African American farmer Ned Cobb (1...

Alabama Sharecroppers Union.

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Cobb, Ned, 1885-1973.

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