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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...
...another local move yesterday, the NAACP Legal defense and Educational Fund filed a motion in the U.S. Supreme Court asking the court to set bail for Perdew and three other Northern college students in the Americas, Ga., county jail. The students, all volunteer civil rights workers, were indicted Aug. 8 for "inciting to insurrection." They were leaders in a drive to break the color bar at a local movie theater...
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...
SNCC spokesmen in Atlanta, Ga., said last night that Indianola officials had violated an agreement made with the Justice Department in August, 1962, which stipulated that the Alabama authorities would not prosecute SNCC workers for voter registration activity...
...urging of some friends, and because he wanted "something interesting to do" for the summer, John W. Perdew '64 went to Albany, Ga., last June to join the campaign for civil rights spearheaded by the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A few days after his arrival Perdew was arrested while watching a crowd of demonstrators; he was imprisoned for twenty days, and refused to eat the entire time in protest. After his release Perdew said "I'm getting more militant as I go along," and it was clear that one man's curious interest in the civil rights movement...