{"id":1001,"date":"2014-05-15T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2017-10-16T09:55:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T16:55:52","slug":"cobb-ned-nate-shaw-pseudonym-ca-1885","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1001","title":{"rendered":"COBB, NED, 1885-1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Farmer. Born&#8211; About 1885. Parents&#8211; Hayes and Liza (Culver) Cobb. Married&#8211; Hannah Ramsey, 1906 (died 1950). Children&#8211; Nine; married&#8211;Josie Travis Todd. \u00a0An illiterate Black tenant farmer in Tallapoosa County. In 1932 he was involved in the Alabama Sharecroppers&#8217; Union. In December of that same year he was involved in a shooting with a deputy sheriff who had been sent to foreclose on one of Cobb&#8217;s neighbors. Served twelve years in prison. In 1971, Theodore Rosengarten tape recorded Cobb telling his life story and published the autobiographical book on Cobb&#8217;s life as All God&#8217;s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw.\u00a0 Received the National Book Award for general nonfiction, 1974. Died November 5, 1973.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All God&#8217;s Dangers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All God&#8217;s Dangers; the Life of Nate Shaw. New York; Knopf, 1974.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Farmer. Born&#8211; About 1885. Parents&#8211; Hayes and Liza (Culver) Cobb. Married&#8211; Hannah Ramsey, 1906 (died 1950). Children&#8211; Nine; married&#8211;Josie Travis Todd. \u00a0An illiterate Black tenant farmer in Tallapoosa County. In 1932 he was involved in the Alabama Sharecroppers&#8217; Union. In December of that same year he was involved in a shooting with a deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-c","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6961,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}