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Others at the meeting did not seem to agree completely with Palmer's view of the white American simply financing the civil rights struggle. John Hartman '64 described what has happened to John W. Perdew '64, a white Harvard student facing charges punishable by death in a Georgia jail. Perdew was engaged in civil rights work for SNCC when he was arrested...
...Through circumstances not entirely of his own making, Perdew has risked quite a lot for civil rights," Hartman said. "Some of us have not yet discovered how much we are willing to risk. It is a bare minimum that we raise the money to get Perdew out of jail. We must begin to examine, in this context, the commitment of the white liberal-radical to civil rights...
...last night's meeting, John Hartman '64, who has received several letters from Perdew since his arrest, described the case. He asserted that it is "symbolic of the violence and the threat of death for civil rights workers in southwest Georgia...
...Butts, they said, was a man of "bad character"; they testified that they would not believe him under oath. One after another, they characterized the former Georgia coach as a man who dabbled in loan companies on the side and numbered known professional gamblers among his friends. William C. Hartman, who served as Georgia's backfield coach until 1957, testified that in November 1960 he and a group of university alumni had urged Butts to resign as Georgia football coach. They had been disturbed, said Hartman, by reports of frequent Butts appearances "at nightclubs in the company of girls...
PHILIP H. HARTMAN...