Word: americus
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time for waiting," said the President in his television speech, "is gone." Even as he spoke, the civil rights revolution continued to bubble and boil. In Americus, Ga., white toughs beat five civil rights workers, and demonstrations continued-but county officials appointed three Negro voting clerks and registered more than 300 Negro voters in a single day. In Bogalusa, La., two Negro policemen were hired. In Slidell, La., night riders burned two Negro churches. In Chicago, civil rights demonstrators marched outside the modest home of Mayor Richard Daley- and were pelted with eggs and tomatoes by Daley's white...
Violence has become almost habit in the black belt when civil rights workers collide with unyielding segregationists. In Americus, Ga. (pop. 14,482), the confrontation started in 1963, and mediation efforts so far have failed. So when sudden death came one midnight last week, the only surprises were the victim's color and his disinterest in the contest...
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...
Charges against John Perdew '64 of "assault with attempt to murder" a policeman were dropped this week in Americus, Georgia...
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...