Wilbur J. Cash was born in Gaffney, SC, in 1900 and moved to Boiling Springs in 1912. After graduating from Wake Forest College in 1922, Cash worked intermittently as a journalist for several newspapers, including the Charlotte Observer and Charlotte News, and as a freelance writer for magazines such as H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury. In 1941 he published his masterpiece, The Mind of the South, described as “by common consent a classic work of history and social criticism” by George B. Tindall, who wrote Cash’s entry in the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography. Cash died just a few months after The Mind of the South appeared.
MEDIA
Listen to Wilbur J. Cash give the Commencement Address at the University of Texas at Austin (June 2, 1941):
“The South in a Changing World”
(Courtesy of John Elkins)
Take a look inside The Mind of the South by Wilbur J. Cash.
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