Word: perdew
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Inter-racial marriages are illegal in Georgia, and Perdew's marriage to Amanda Bowen, of Americus, though performed in his home state in Colorado, has evoked a stream of hostile publicity in the South...
Georgia papers carried front-page stories and the news was announced frequently over local radio stations. "I'm sure we'll meet a hostile response," Perdew commented. "But I'm not sure exactly what the police will...
...John Perdew '64, who was beaten and jailed while working for SNCC in Georgia last year, expects further trouble this month when he returns to that state with his Negro bride...
...Perdew and four others were jailed August 8, 1963 and held for 87 days without bail under an 1871 Georgia "insurrection" law. The five were freed when a three-judge federal panel ruled the law unconstitutional, but Americus officials immediately brought other charges against them...
...When Perdew returned for trial last Monday, he learned that the prosecutor had dropped the charges...