Biography
Joseph "Jody" Wall was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee activist in St. Petersburg, Florida. On December 29, 1966, he helped Joseph Waller Jr., later known as Omali Yeshitela, remove a City Hall mural that protesters opposed for its racist depictions of Black people. Arrested and jailed, Wall remained in pretrial custody because he could not afford bail. A grand-larceny conviction brought three years of probation. On October 2, 1968, a Florida appeals court reversed his conviction and ordered a separate new trial; the subsequent outcome has not been established.
In his June 15, 2020 account of the St. Petersburg City Hall mural protest, Omali Yeshitela remembered Joseph Wall as Jodi Wall and named him alongside Crawford Jones, Tommy Williams, Lemuel Green and John Bryant. He said these participants went to jail. The recollection does not provide Wall's individual discharge date,.
