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Four young men have sweated out the comforts of the county jail in Americus, Ga., ever since August, when they were arrested during civil rights demonstrations. They cannot be freed on bail-they have been charged with "inciting an insurrection," a crime that, in Georgia at least, is punishable by death...
...antique laws has not satisfied segregationists, Southern states and municipalities have reached in the other direction and passed scores of new statutes. Seven states enacted laws against "barratry" (inciting lawsuits) to harass civil rights organizations and their lawyers. When civil rights pickets gathered at the only movie house in Americus one Saturday last July, members of the city council rounded up a quorum, swiftly passed an ordinance declaring that henceforth picketing would be permitted only between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m., that there must be no more than two pickets per city block, and that the pickets must stay...
...chairmen explained that the Perdew case may be solved when a three-member panel of judges rules on the question of ball next Thursday, Because these were apparently the only grounds for refusing to investigate the Americus case, Ervin was forced by the other members of the subcommittee to add a postscript to his letter. In the postscript, Ervin said the subcommittee would consider investigating the constitutionality of the imprisonment pending the outcome of the October 31 trial...
Perdew, along with three other college students, is currently being held without ball in the country jail in Americus, Ga., on a charge of incitement to insurrection...
...delegation of at least ten University students will travel to Washington on Monday to urge legislation that could speed the release of John W. Perdew '64 and the four other civil rights workers now in their third month of imprisonment in Americus...