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Lawyers for John W. Perdew '64 and three other students imprisoned in Americus, Ga., will file a suit today in a Federal District Court charging a "conspiracy" among state and local officials to thwart the desegregation campaign in Americus...
...legal action seeks the release of Perdew, Don Harris, Ralph Allen and Thomas McDaniel, who have been held in Sumter County jail since their arrest Aug. 8. The four are workers for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. A fifth SNCC worker, Sallie Mae Durham, was turned over to juvenile authorities when she was discovered...
Others at the meeting did not seem to agree completely with Palmer's view of the white American simply financing the civil rights struggle. John Hartman '64 described what has happened to John W. Perdew '64, a white Harvard student facing charges punishable by death in a Georgia jail. Perdew was engaged in civil rights work for SNCC when he was arrested...
...Perdew's Risk...
...Through circumstances not entirely of his own making, Perdew has risked quite a lot for civil rights," Hartman said. "Some of us have not yet discovered how much we are willing to risk. It is a bare minimum that we raise the money to get Perdew out of jail. We must begin to examine, in this context, the commitment of the white liberal-radical to civil rights...