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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 & Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg,
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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 the crosshairs of the White Knights, w headquarters in nearby Laurel. Already known as one of the most 2/
violent sects of the #KKK in the South, the group carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home & store. A yr. before, #TomLandrum, a young, unassuming member of a family w deep #Mississippi roots,joined the Klan to become an FBI informant. He penetrated the White 3/
