When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
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By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg, and for years after Evers's assassination Dahmer was the chief advocate for voting rights in a county where Black registration was shamelessly suppressed. This put Dahmer in...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1324005750
ISBN13:9781324005759
Release Date:June 2021
Publisher:W. W. Norton & Company
Length:400 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.2" x 9.1"
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