Word: ga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perdew, along with three other college students, is currently being held without ball in the country jail in Americus, Ga., on a charge of incitement to insurrection...
SNCC spokesmen in Atlanta, Ga., said last night that Indianola officials had violated an agreement made with the Justice Department in August, 1962, which stipulated that the Alabama authorities would not prosecute SNCC workers for voter registration activity...
...urging of some friends, and because he wanted "something interesting to do" for the summer, John W. Perdew '64 went to Albany, Ga., last June to join the campaign for civil rights spearheaded by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A few days after his arrival Perdew was arrested while watching a crowd of demonstrators; he was imprisoned for twenty days, and refused to eat the entire time in protest. After his release Perdew said "I'm getting more militant as I go along," and it was clear that one man's curious interest in the civil rights movement...
...delegation of at least ten University students will travel to Washington on Monday to urge legislation that could speed the release of John W. Perdew '64 and the four other civil rights workers now in their third month of imprisonment in Americus, Ga...
...Schwarts '65 told the group that the bill, if passed, would allow the five Student Non-Violent Co-ordinating Committee members to appeal to the U.S. Circuit Court or the Supreme Court for the removal of their case to a federal court. District Judge J. Robert Elliott of Albany, Ga., recently remanded their case to the state courts, where, under the present statute, it must remain...