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Realistically, Perdew does not face the threat of the death penalty. But local officials in Georgia are determined to seek a heavy sentence for the students as a warning to other civil rights activists in the area...
...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...
...August 8 Perdew was again arrested, again on less than substantial evidence, and was charged with incitement to insurrection, a capital offense in the state. Since then he has been incarcerated in the Sumter County jail, while a team of attorneys has worked for his release, and the release of the four other SNCC workers imprisoned with...
Personal interviews will be arranged for the students with their congressmen and senators, in order to lobby for the enactment of Title X of the House Judiciary Subcommittee civil rights bill, it was announced last night at a meeting of an ad hoc committee for Perdew's release...
Meanwhile, the fund drive to raise $5,000 for Perdew's legal counsel continued at Harvard. He has been charged with inciting an insurrection, an offense that carries a possible death penalty in the state of Georgia...