Word: perdew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...jury of 12 white men began hearing testimony in Americus, Ga., yesterday in the case of John W. Perdew '64 and three fellow civil rights demonstrators standing trial for charges of assault with intent to murder...
...Perdew, Allen, Donald Harris, and Thomas McDaniel had originally been charged with incitement to insurrection under a pre-Civil War Georgia statute, and with unlawful assembly. The insurrection charge carries a maximum penalty of death, but both charges were ruled unconstitutional last month by a three-judge Federal panel...
...asking support of a drive to collect money for Perdew's legal defense, Dean Monro said he was convinced the students were in danger of being sentenced to heavy prison terms...
...tradition in which Negroes have "suppressed any desire for human dignity" is slowly crumbling. Perdew pointed to an upsurge of voter registrations in Americus and an increase in the number of mass protest meetings as causes for some optimism in the civil rights movement...
...Perdew lashed out at Northern newspapers for "merely keeping score" in racial developments, impersonally reporting only major demonstrations. The failure to publicize "police brutality," he said, allows the federal government to ignore it. And unless the federal government takes an interest, "local governments are not going to respond" to integration efforts...