Word: bail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John W. Perdew '64, free on bail after three months in an Americus, Ga., jail, spoke last night of a "depressing situation" in the South and the "human problems" of integration...
...three-judge federal court declared unconstitutional a Georgia insurrection law under which Perdew and four other civil rights workers have been held without bail. The court similarly struck down a law against "unlawful assembly," under which the rights leaders had also been charged...
...been charged only with incitement to insurrection. Perdew, Donald Harris, 25, a Hutgers graduate; and Ralph W. Allen, a student on leave from Trinity, had been charged with rioting, assisting in escape, and assault with intent to murder, as well as incitement and unlawful assembly. The court fixed bail at $2000 each, and it was promptly paid...
Four young men have sweated out the comforts of the county jail in Americus, Ga., ever since August, when they were arrested during civil rights demonstrations. They cannot be freed on bail-they have been charged with "inciting an insurrection," a crime that, in Georgia at least, is punishable by death...
Extraordinarily high bail for arrested demonstrators is also a highly popular gimmick, useful for depleting the treasuries of civil rights organizations. Some...