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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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perdew, Bride Expect Harassment; Rights Worker Returns to Georgia | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Perdew has been working for SNCC since June, 1963, when be left Harvard to join the civil rights movement in Albany, Ga. Arrested almost immediately during a peace march, Perdew was charged with "assault with intent to kill," a state felony. While awaiting trial, Perdew was again arrested and this time charged with "attempting to incite an insurrection," a capital offence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perdew, Bride Expect Harassment; Rights Worker Returns to Georgia | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

Perdew, who thinks he will probably return to Harvard at some point, said that he and his wife will continue to work for SNCC...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Perdew, Bride Expect Harassment; Rights Worker Returns to Georgia | 1/15/1965 | See Source »

...methods, too, King has lagged. Two groups, SNCC and CORE, have a policy of remaining in the areas that they enter, developing local leadership, and sharing the victories, the defeats, and the risks that the local people experience. King, however, operates in a hit-and-run fashion. When he moves into an area, he is neither familiar with past efforts, nor in touch with the local people. In Albany, Ga., in Birmingham, and in St. Augustine, he selected a city where other civil rights groups were already working, flew in for several weeks, fired up local Negroes to heated protests...

Author: By Ellen Lake, | Title: Martin Luther King: A Second Look | 1/14/1965 | See Source »

...Unlike most Negroes struggling for "the cause," King keeps himself non-controversial by never saying anything anyone but the most rabid White Supremicist doesn't want to hear. Yet below his gentleness, below his slickness, one senses enormous restraint. "Yes . . . yes, of course" he drawls when introduced to a SNCC worker, as though he had followed the boy's courageous exploits all summer...

Author: By Jacob R. Brackman, | Title: Martin Luther King | 1/13/1965 | See Source »

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