Item details: When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer - 48333282

When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer

text When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer

Summary: "The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and ... Read more

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Description: 382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company 2021

Library	Location	Status
Woodmere (Main Branch)	305.8 WIL in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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TADL-WOOD	305.8 WIL in Adult Non-fiction	Available

bibliography biography History. Biographies.

Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand 1908-1966 Landrum, Tom 1932- Bowers, Samuel Holloway 1924-2006 Ku Klux Klan (1915- ). White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan History United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation Officials and employees African Americans Crimes against Mississippi History African American civil rights workers Mississippi History Laurel (Miss.) Race relations HISTORY / United States / General Bowers, Samuel Holloway 1924-2006 Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand 1908-1966 United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation. African American civil rights workers African Americans Crimes against Employees Race relations Mississippi Mississippi Laurel

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