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Hardcover When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer Book

ISBN: 1324005750

ISBN13: 9781324005759

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...

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Published by Ashly Moore Sheldon • January 23, 2022
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