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...note: The following letter was written to the SUMMER NEWS last Friday by John W. Perdew '64, currently working for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee in Albany, Ga. The trial he refers to was postponed yesterday and rescheduled...
Last month John Perdew made a "spur-of-the-moment decision" and went to Albany, Ga., scene of some of the bitterest clashes between Negroes and whites, to join the forces of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He went in large part because he "wanted something interesting to do this summer," and because a few friends--veterans of the battle--convinced him of the righteousness of SNCC's campaign...
Militancy brought clashes of fists, stones, clubs, guns. In Cambridge, Md., a brief truce between Negroes and whites quickly gave way to warfare, with bands of armed and angry men roving the streets (see following story). In Savannah, Ga., ignoring appeals for caution voiced by responsible leaders, Negroes broke into a window-smashing, tire-slashing rampage that lasted sporadically for two nights and a day. The outbreak began when 1,000 Negroes marched downtown to protest the arrest of a Negro leader. A young New York Negro named Bruce Gordon, a member, oddly enough, of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee...
Refreshing Pause. Atwood credits Emory with "the greatest potential of any private university in the country." New presidents always talk that way, but Emory has plenty of promise. Named for an early Methodist bishop, it was horn a country college in Oxford, Ga., had a heady rebirth in 1915 after the Methodist Church divorced Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. Having dumped Vandy, the Methodists launched two new universities-Emory and Southern Methodist in Dallas. Atlanta's Coca-Cola King Asa G. Candler gave land and $1,000,000-leading to a short-lived suggestion that Emory be renamed...
SAVANNAH, GA. Some 1,000 Negro demonstrators rallied in front of a segregated Holiday Inn motel to chant their demands for equality. Then they moved toward the city jail, where dozens of others, arrested during three weeks of previous demonstrations, were already locked up. City police, reinforced by Georgia state troopers, moved in to break up the march. Pelted with bottles and bricks, the cops retaliated with billy clubs and tear gas, arrested about 275 more Negroes...