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Perdew and three other workers for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Zev Aelony, Don Harris, and Ralph Allen are being held without bail for inciting to insurrection, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of five years' imprisonment. The fifth SNCC worker, Thomas McDaniel, is...
A circular distributed in the dining halls last night asked students to write Congressmen about Wallace and John W. Perdew '64, who is now in a Georgia jail on a charge of inciting to insurrection. The circular was apparently written by students working for Perdew without consultation with the Wallace...
Monro said that while the students do not realistically face a death sentence for incitement to insurrection, officials will try to make an example of them as a warning to "outsiders" who participate in integration campaigns in the South.
In this instance, Meltsner said, Georgia is interested not in the prosecution of criminals, but in the suppression of civil rights agitation. The suit, therefore, asks the immediate release of the four students, three of whom are charged with incitement to insurrection under a state statute whose constitutionality is widely...
"Every day they spend in jail is punishment without any kind of probable cause," Meltsner said. He said that if the students were out on ball, their lawyers would wait until the trial to attack the enforcement of the insurrection statute. Unusual measures are being taken because local officials show...