Word: perdew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solicitor General Archibald Cox yesterday assured University officials that the Justice Department is keeping close watch on the case of John W. Perdew '64 and other civil rights workers now serving their third month in a Georgia prison for integration activities...
...Cambridge to attend the Board of Overseers meeting, Cox spoke briefly at an informal meeting of officers interested in the cases of Perdew and Fred C. Wallace 3L, now under indictment for felonious assault in Prince Edward County...
...another development, the John W. Perdew Fund will launch a door-to-door campaign tonight to raise money for Perdew's legal defense. Dean Monro last night called the fund drive "extremely important," since he and other observers are convinced Georgia officials are determined to convict Perdew and the other students...
Money collected by the Perdew Fund will be used to engage the best counsel available for Perdew, Monro said. He added that he was not criticizing the NAACP Legal Defense Fund which has been handling the case. But he noted that that organization has many cases to deal with, and might not be able to give each individual case the attention it requires for successful defense...
...legal action seeks the release of Perdew, Don Harris, Ralph Allen and Thomas McDaniel, who have been held in Sumter County jail since their arrest Aug. 8. The four are workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A fifth SNCC worker, Sallie Mae Durham, was turned over to juvenile authorities when she was discovered...