Word: perdew
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Legal wheels began turning yesterday in the drive to free John W. Perdew '64 and four other civil rights workers imprisoned in Americus, Ga., since...
...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 charged with unlawful assembly and assaulting an officer...
...another development, the Kirkland House Committee reported last night that it has raised $600 of its $5000 target; the money will go for Perdew's defense. Along with the fund drive, an ad hoc committee under William R. Crout, teaching fellow in Gen Ed, is also mobilizing support for Title X of the House Judiciary Subcommittee civil rights bill to enable civil rights cases to be removed more readily from local to federal district courts...
...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 group...
Klein said that while Perdew might be helped by additional national attention, Wallace's predicament was very different. He said his group had been told that outside pressure would adversely affect Wallace. "It is wrong to lump the two cases together," Klein stated...