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| | James Peck |
 | | James Peck, a pacifist and radical journalist, was a member of the the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) and the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). |
 | | Peck and James Farmer, national director of CORE and twelve other volunteers left Washington on 4th May, 1961, for Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. |
 | | Peck, who was seated in about the middle of the bus, got up after the arrest, saying to the police, "If you arrest them, you'll have to arrest me, too, for I'm going to sit in the rear." The three men were held at the police station for half an hour. |
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