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...Kirkland House Committed voted unanimously last night to initiate a College-wide fund drive for John W. Perdew '64, who was arrested on Aug. 8 following a civil rights demonstration in Amerleus, Ga...
Dean Monro said yesterday that the College would not issue an official statement or take any other action in behalf of John W. Perdew '64, a vounteer civil rights worker facing trial in Americus, Ga., on a charge that could lead to his execution. He added, however, that he personally thought Perdew's situation was "terrible...
Robertson, Va. Russell, Ga. Stennis, Miss. Talmadge, Ga. Thurmond...
...color barrier, and Mayor John Chris tian said he was "very well satisfied with the way things turned out." In Tallahassee, Fla., 16-year-old Harold Knowles, one of three Negroes to start classes at Leon High School, said: "I expected some friction, but nothing hap pened." In Savannah, Ga., 25 Negroes entered previously all-white public and parochial high schools, and a white pu pil said later: "We'll be all right if everybody will just leave us alone." In Cambridge, Md., summer-long scene of civil rights strife, 20 Negroes were peaceably admitted to white schools...
With that, millions of people-North and South, black and white-felt the fangs of segregation and, at least in spirit, joined the protest movement. The revolution was on-in earnest. Places little known for anything else became bywords for racial conflict-Anniston, Ala., Albany, Ga., Prince Edward County, Va., Cambridge, Md., Englewood, N.J., Greenwood and Greenville, Miss., Goldsboro and Greensboro...