mailer regarding Workers Defense League appeal in the decision in the Odell Waller case; "Odell Waller 24 Year Old Sharecropper, Doomed!" pamphlet, December 1941

The Workers Defense League Collection (1938-1954) contains 295 items consisting of newsletters; press and news releases; memoranda; mailers; and other documents generated by the Workers Defense League. Included in this collection are issues of News Bulletin; Last-Minute News; Workers Defense Bulletin; Press Service; and News Service as well as single sheet press releases, a copy of the tenth anniversary journal, memoranda, and documents related to the Odell Waller case, in which Waller, a Black sharecropper, was executed for fatally shooting his white landlord in self-defense. Other topics covered in the press and news releases include: Pepper-Geyer Anti-poll tax bill; railroad hearings; Austin-Wadsworth Bill; manpower bill; conscription; union rights; pay cuts; Tee Davis case; Indonesian deportees; the Private Levy case; Taft-Hartley Act; anti-lynching; conscientious objectors; peonage; immigration; and other subjects.