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26 Φεβ 2018 · The Odell Waller case occurred in the Great Depression and World War II eras. This case raises fundamental questions concerning not only economic and racial justice, but also the role of African American women in redressing the socio-economic conditions that oppressed women and families.
Gender, Civil Rights, and the Case of Odell Waller. Karen Cook Bell. See Full PDF Download PDF. See Full PDF Download PDF. Related Papers. Transgender Studies Quarterly, reprinted in The Transgender Studies Reader Remix (2022) ...
Murray describes her work with the Workers' Defense League towards the defense of Odell Waller, an African American sharecropper sentenced to death for the murder of his landlord during the early 1940s.
1 Δεκ 1994 · The Case of Odell Waller and Virginia Justice, 1940–1942. By Richard B. Sherman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press and James A. Dombrowski: An American Heretic, 1897–1983.
The Waller case provides a context for the exploration of Dewey's thought on race during one of the most diffi cult struggles in our history, the late years of the De-pression and the early years of World War II. In 1940, Odell Waller was a twenty-three-year-old African American share-
per from Southside Virginia, Odell Waller, shot his white landlord, Oscar Davis. Convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to death, he became the object of a coast-to-coast campaign to "save Odell Waller." It elicited support from Thurgood Marshall (and the NAACP), A. Philip Randolph (and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Describes the case of an African American share cropper who killed his landlord in self defense; discusses discrimination in jury selection and indirectly the poll tax. Subjects Waller, Odell.
