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

by Curtis Wilkie

Book Overview

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"