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...delegation of at least ten University students will travel to Washington on Monday to urge legislation that could speed the release of John W. Perdew '64 and the four other civil rights workers now in their third month of imprisonment in Americus...
Legal wheels began turning yesterday in the drive to free John W. Perdew '64 and four other civil rights workers imprisoned in Americus, Ga., since...
...Perdew and three other workers for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, Zev Aelony, Don Harris, and Ralph Allen are being held without bail for inciting to insurrection, a charge carrying a maximum penalty of death and a minimum of five years' imprisonment. The fifth SNCC worker, Thomas McDaniel, is charged with unlawful assembly and assaulting an officer...
...another development, the Kirkland House Committee reported last night that it has raised $600 of its $5000 target; the money will go for Perdew's defense. Along with the fund drive, an ad hoc committee under William R. Crout, teaching fellow in Gen Ed, is also mobilizing support for Title X of the House Judiciary Subcommittee civil rights bill to enable civil rights cases to be removed more readily from local to federal district courts...
Klein said that while Perdew might be helped by additional national attention, Wallace's predicament was very different. He said his group had been told that outside pressure would adversely affect Wallace. "It is wrong to lump the two cases together," Klein stated...