Odell Waller
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Odell Waller
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Odell Waller was an African-American sharecropper from Gretna, Virginia, executed for the fatal shooting of his white landlord, Oscar Wheldon Davis, on July 15, 1940. Waller maintained at his trial that the killing had been in self-defense, but was convicted by a jury of white citizens who had paid the poll tax, a measure that effectively barred blacks and poor whites from jury service. The Workers' Defense League, a socialist labor rights organization, began a national campaign calling for the
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American sharecropper convicted of killing his landlord (1917–1942)
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2024-01-12T19:40:24Z
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