Negro Youth Rights Case Highlighted At Hampton Conference
A NAACP youth conference at Hampton Institute Virginia urged white students to support Odell Waller a sharecropper sentenced to die for self defense and to demand a fair trial. The letter links his case to poll tax disenfranchisement and sharecropping exploitation across eight southern states.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Hampton Institute
Virginia
America
Odell Waller
Oscar Davis
Davis
Waller
Workers Defense League
N.A.A. C.P
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
Supreme Court
Southern
Waller Jury
James H. Price
State House
Richmond
Agar Addresses Assembly At 1 P M
Literary figure Mr. Agar speaks before the assembly at 1 P M and is noted as Literary Editor of the English Review for four years. He wrote Time and Tide syndicated column 1935 to 1939 and co edited the symposium Who Owns America. He authored The Land of the Free which won the Pulitzer Prize in American history in 1933. He served in the U S Naval Reserve in World War I and graduated from Columbia in 1919 with advanced degrees from Princeton in 1920 and 1922.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
English Review
Mr. Agar
Time and Tide
United States Naval Reserve
Campus Calendar Schedule for November 11 12 13
Campus events list includes Newman Club Open House November 11 from 4 to 6. A A meeting November 12 at 12 30 in the A A Room. College tea November 12 in the College Parlor 4 to 6. Professor Lang speaks November 13 to the German and Music Club Tea in the College Parlor at 4. Italian Club meets Conference Room at 4. Mortarboard staff short meeting at 12 in their office. Foreign Students Tea in the Conference Room at 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Music Club
Mortarboard
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Florence Fischman
Jane Devonshire
Madam
Representative Assembly
Yours
Doris Nicholson
Helen Kandel
World Student Service Fund” Drive
Europe
Japan
Switzerland
Agar
Assembly
Broadway
113Th Street
Barnard Camp
Jake
Coca-Cola Company
Coca-Cola: Bottling CO. OF
NEW York, Inc
Newman Club
A.A
Professor Lang
Barnard
WSSF
Columbia Community Chest
Earl Hall
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