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The Waller Case.

Authors :
Sancton, Thomas
Source :
New Republic; 7/13/42, Vol. 107 Issue 2, p45-47, 3p
Publication Year :
1942

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