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The Waller Case.
- Source :
- New Republic; 7/13/42, Vol. 107 Issue 2, p45-47, 3p
- Publication Year :
- 1942
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Abstract
- Focuses on the trial of African-American sharecropper from Virginia, Odell Waller, who killed his white landlord, Oscar Davis. Opinion of Governor Colgate W. Darden on the case; Statements of Waller before his electrocution; Information on handouts of the Workers' Defense League which turned Oscar Davis into a symbol of oppression; Reference to the case of Tom Denson who was a sharecropper at the farm of R.G. Siddle, who took all crops of Denson.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00286583
- Volume :
- 107
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- New Republic
- Publication Type :
- Periodical
- Accession number :
- 14854287