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...John W. Perdew '64, free on bail after three months in an Americus, Ga., jail, spoke last night of a "depressing situation" in the South and the "human problems" of integration...
...Perdew, told a meeting of the Harvard-Radcliffe Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee in Lowell Lecture Hall of the "depths of fear" created by "a 300-year history of oppression" of the Negro in the South...
...Perdew cited Negro resignation to segregation as a major obstacle in his own work for voter registration. Many Negroes find his message disturbing, and as a result resent him. "Every Negro in Americus knows who I am, where I've been for the past three months, and what I've done," he stated, "but many still greet me, if at all, like a white insurance agent coming to collect money every week...
...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...
...wait until the three-judge federal court resumes sitting sometime in December. The panel recessed after its decision today. When it reconvenes, it will hear Georgia officials present their side of the case and will rule on a motion by the students' attorneys asking that the charges against Perdew, Harris, and Allen be dropped...