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Odell Waller was born in 1917 to Dollie Jones and an unknown father, who died shortly after his birth. Jones gave the boy to her sister Annie Waller and Annie's husband, Willis Waller, to adopt, and Odell considered Annie his mother. [1] Odell completed three years of high school, but was forced to leave school to work on the farm. [1]
The group also took on the case of Odell Waller, a Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death in 1940 for killing his white landlord. Arguing that the landlord had cheated Waller and that he had in any case acted in self-defense, the WDL raised money for Waller's defense, lobbied for the commutation of his sentence, and mounted a nationwide ...
With the WDL, Murray became active in the case of Odell Waller, a black Virginia sharecropper sentenced to death for killing his white landlord, Oscar Davis, during an argument. The WDL argued that Davis had cheated Waller in a settlement and as their argument grew more heated, Waller had shot Davis in legitimate fear of his life. [42]
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Remember Odell Waller! Chicago, Ill.: Demos Press, 1942; From Revolution to Reaction: A History of the 3rd International. Chicago, Ill.: Demos Press, 1942; John Dewey, a Marxian critique by Sidney Lens (as Sid Okun) [Chicago] Revolutionary workers league, U.S. 1942. Minutes of the 13th Plenum Chicago, Illinois; Revolutionary Workers League 1942
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Former member and co-founder of the FACTNet, a non-profit organization that criticized the church, known for winning a multi-million dollar judgment against the church in a case about publishing material on the internet that the church claimed was protected by copyright. [205] [152]: 153 [206] Bonnie Woods: 19xx– 1982
The case of the Martinsville Seven was taken up by outside groups, including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Civil Rights Congress (CRC). Martin A. Martin of the Richmond law firm Hill, Martin and Robinson, was the lead attorney for the appellate defense team for the NAACP in Virginia, as his firm ...