In 1969, historian and journalist Theodore Rosengarten (b.1944), came to Alabama to search for and interview surviving members of the Sharecroppers Union. This triumphant autobiography, assembled from the eighty four year old Shaw's oral reminiscences, is the plain spoken story of an 'over average' man who witnessed wrenching changes in the lives of Southern black people and whose unassuming courage helped bring those changes about. His defiance cost him twelve years in prison. At the age of forty seven, he faced down a crowd of white deputies who had come to confiscate a neighbour's crop. At the age of nine Nate was picking cotton for thirty five cents an hour. He joined the Sharecroppers' Union (SCU) in 1931, which was founded the same year. Ned Cobb (also known as Nate Shaw(1885-1973), was an African American tenant farmer born in Tallapoosa County in Alabama. Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Top of page block dyed dark red as issued, some browning to page fore edges (some pages uncut), not price clipped (£7.50), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a much loved and read copy. Jacket sadly quite tatty, with edge wear, chipping, closed tears and loss to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with loss, folds rubbed and split, now largely held together by new film wrapper. Jacket design by Lidia Ferrara (illustrator).
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