http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/03/30/julia-tutwiler-prison/ Bicycle touring and history Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:23:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/03/30/julia-tutwiler-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-2468 The Spokesrider » Zavalinka Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:28:53 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/03/30/julia-tutwiler-prison/#comment-2468 [...] This is the courthouse building that can be scene from the row of rocking chairs. It’s where Nate Shaw/Ned Cobb of “All God’s Dangers” was put on trial in the early 1930s. His story was one of two historical episodes that got me on a bicycle tour to this part of Alabama. Cobb/Shaw had used a gun to try to defend his private property rights at his home several miles south of Dadeville. Ironically, it was the American Communist Party, not usually thought of as a defender of property rights, that provided a defense lawyer for him. It also provided his wife with a small monthly payment so she could make ends meet while her husband was in prison. A few days before my visit to Dadeville I had ridden past the prison where he spent most of his 12-year sentence. Photos of that ride are here. [...] [...] This is the courthouse building that can be scene from the row of rocking chairs. It’s where Nate Shaw/Ned Cobb of “All God’s Dangers” was put on trial in the early 1930s. His story was one of two historical episodes that got me on a bicycle tour to this part of Alabama. Cobb/Shaw had used a gun to try to defend his private property rights at his home several miles south of Dadeville. Ironically, it was the American Communist Party, not usually thought of as a defender of property rights, that provided a defense lawyer for him. It also provided his wife with a small monthly payment so she could make ends meet while her husband was in prison. A few days before my visit to Dadeville I had ridden past the prison where he spent most of his 12-year sentence. Photos of that ride are here. [...]

]]> http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/03/30/julia-tutwiler-prison/comment-page-1/#comment-476 The Spokesrider » Little Tallassee Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:05:43 +0000 http://www.spokesrider.com/2008/03/30/julia-tutwiler-prison/#comment-476 [...] leaving Hickory Ground, I rode north to the Julia Tutwiler prison (which I wrote about here and here), then continued north along US-231 before heading off the highway toward the [...] [...] leaving Hickory Ground, I rode north to the Julia Tutwiler prison (which I wrote about here and here), then continued north along US-231 before heading off the highway toward the [...]

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