Biography
Wilbur Cobb was an Alabama sharecropper imprisoned during the December 1932 repression of the Share Croppers Union. The December 26 Daily Worker names him among the Dadeville prisoners whom International Labor Defense attorney Frank B. Irwin was permitted to interview after arriving Thursday, December 22. Mrs. E. M. Cooper was denied access, and sheriffs remained present and took notes during the lawyers’ interviews. The account refers to ten prisoners but explicitly lists only nine names. It does not establish his initial arrest, sentence, eventual release or total custody duration. Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/herndon/1932/dec-26-1932-DW.pdf#page=3
The December 26 report names these detained Tallapoosa sharecroppers while describing the ILD’s attempts to locate and visit the prisoners. It differentiates Dadeville, Montgomery and Tuskegee locations rather than assigning every individual to all three. It supplies no new arrest or complete actual duration. Daily Worker, December 26, 1932, original PDF page 3. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1932/v09-n308-NY-dec-26-1932-DW-LOC.pdf#page=3
