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Local Precedent. Ironically, the decision was handed down in the case of a white defendant convicted by an all-white jury in Americus, the county seat. Arrested during civil rights demonstrations there last August, Ralph W. Allen, a student from Connecticut's Trinity College, was first charged with inciting an insurrection, a capital offense in Georgia. But before Allen could be tried, the state's insurrection law was held unconstitutional by a federal court (TIME, Nov. 8). On the testimony of an Americus policeman who claimed that Allen threw a bottle at him, the 22-year-old civil...
Inevitably, there were some trouble spots, such as Laurel, Miss., and Americus and Albany, Ga. In Baton Rouge, La., a white state employee punched a Negro minister in the jaw as he and two Negro women left the state capitol cafeteria after eating. Fifteen Negroes were arrested in Slidell, La., when they sought service at a restaurant. At a variety-store lunch counter in Bessemer, Ala., a steel town near Birmingham, six Negro youths were beaten by whites wielding 24-in. baseball bats. Near Texarkana, Texas, a white man and three Negroes were wounded when another white man opened fire...
...today is the home of the Albany Movement, probably the most vigorous local southern rights group. As chief counsel to the Movement, King has defended more than one thousand people arrested for civil rights activities in that city--as well as others, such as John Perdew '64, in nearby Americus...
...Americus police officer testified yesterday that during the demonstation Ralph W. Allen, one of the defendants, threw a bottle that narrowly missed striking another policeman...
Another witness, Police Sgt. H.C. Mason, told the jury that Allen was with a group of Negroes that marched through downtown Americus that night...