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...legal action seeks the release of Perdew, Don Harris, Ralph Allen and Thomas McDaniel, who have been held in Sumter County jail since their arrest Aug. 8. The four are workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A fifth SNCC worker, Sallie Mae Durham, was turned over to juvenile authorities when she was discovered...
Jack Chatfield, a former SNCC worker from Trinity College has mailed a great deal of information to newspapers in the East, and several papers, such as the New York post, have sent reporters to Americus, Ga., the seat of Sumter County...
...letter to the CRIMSON Mary King, a SNCC field secretary in Atlanta, "strongly suggests" that any contributions be sent to SNCC, "ear-marked" for the defense of the students in Americus. She added that because of the persistent news black-out in the South SNCC will step-up its attempts to disseminate information on civil rights cases in the North
...agree completely with Palmer's view of the white American simply financing the civil rights struggle. John Hartman '64 described what has happened to John W. Perdew '64, a white Harvard student facing charges punishable by death in a Georgia jail. Perdew was engaged in civil rights work for SNCC when he was arrested...
...contrast, students at Rutgers University, in New Brunswick, N.J., have already sent $2300 to the Legal Defense Fund of the NAACP, stipulating that it be used to defend Donald Harris, a senior who is among the four SNCC workers in the Americus jail. Kenneth G. McDermott, vice-president of the student council, reported that $200 to $300 is being raised daily by the university newspaper, which is printing the names of contributors and the amounts of their contributions