Word: perdew
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Dean Monro said yesterday that the College would not issue an official statement or take any other action in behalf of John W. Perdew '64, a vounteer civil rights worker facing trial in Americus, Ga., on a charge that could lead to his execution. He added, however, that he personally thought Perdew's situation was "terrible...
...have to make the distinction between Harvard as an institution and as a group of individuals," Monro said. As an individual, he indicated, he would welcome a fund-raising campaign to pay for legal counsel for Perdew and three other students in Northern colleges who were jailed nearly two months...
...John Perdew, a Harvard senior working for SNNC, has discovered that it is common practice for Georgia police to deprive integration workers of liberty without the "due process of law" guaranteed by the Constitution, and to subject them to cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Constitution. Young girls are held incommunicado in rooms lacking either ventilation or sanitary facilities; demonstrators are drenched with high pressure fire hoses and then burned with electric cattle prods; SNCC workers are beaten to unconsciousness while being taken to jail to be arraigned on completely imaginary charges. In addition to this crude sort...
Editors note: The difficulties encountered this summer by John Perdew, a Harvard senior working on a SNCC veter registration drive in Albany, Ga., have served to bring home to the Harvard community the extraordinary obstacles facing the civil rights effort in the south. The following two-part report of the trial of a Negro near Albany express in greater detail the farce that the State of Georgia has made of the law. The fact that the defendant had dared sue the Sheriff last spring perhaps explains, although not justifies the viciousness of the county officials...
...note: The following letter was written to the SUMMER NEWS last Friday by John W. Perdew '64, currently working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Albany, Ga. The trial he refers to was postponed yesterday and rescheduled...