Word: davises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dr. Austin C. Davis
Near Clarksdale. Miss., a colored sharecropper named James Wiggins and his commonlaw wife. Ethel Davis, owed $175 to their white boss, Joseph Shelley Decker, who was afraid they might decamp without paying. What this situation led to was described last week by Clarksdale's Sheriff H. H. Dogan after...
Pending arraignment on a charge of peonage. Farmer Decker was last week released on a $1,500 bond. Sharecroppers Davis and Wiggin stayed in a Clarksdale jail voluntarily as material witnesses.
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Snellenburg's answered Mayor Davis' blast by filing against the mayor not one but nine defamation suits-one for each partner and one for the corporation.