Willie Witcher

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Black
Era:1930s
State:Alabama
Support
Labor Organizing
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Biography

Willie Witcher was a Share Croppers Union striker in Lowndes County, Alabama, shot five times in the 1935 cotton-choppers' strike and then jailed for twenty-seven days while wounded.

Case

Arrested: 1935
Sentence: Jailed while wounded.
Convicted: Held twenty-seven days, 1935

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