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...summer of 1963, the first summer that a significant number of students went down South to work in voter registration projects, mostly under the aegis of the Congress on Racial Equality or the NAACP. A number of Harvard students were arrested that summer, and at least one--John N. Perdew '64, shot at and arrested during an SNCC demonstration in Americus, Ga.--spent more than three months in jail, while his friends in Kirkland House raised $2000 for his defense only to have the Supreme Court strike down the anti-insurrection law under which he was arrested. Other civil-rights...
...inaccurate story in the Denver papers caused Perdew some anxiety. He said that he had received 20 to 25 "hate" phone calls and several letters as a result of the story, which claimed that his marriage was only intended to provide a test case of Georgia's law against inter-racial marriages. Perdew stressed that this was certainly not true...
...Perdew has been working for SNCC since June, 1963, when be left Harvard to join the civil rights movement in Albany, Ga. Arrested almost immediately during a peace march, Perdew was charged with "assault with intent to kill," a state felony. While awaiting trial, Perdew was again arrested and this time charged with "attempting to incite an insurrection," a capital offence...
After a long legal battle, financed by a $5000 fund drive at Harvard, the laws under which Perdew was being charged were declared unconstitutional by a Federal court...
...Perdew, who thinks he will probably return to Harvard at some point, said that he and his wife will continue to work for SNCC...