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/

Ex of #Ignorance. Embarrassing themselves in their ignorance. #RockAndRoll originated from black America: gospel, blues, jazz, boogie woogie, r&b. Black musicians even did #RockAndRock first. White people stole their songs. Due to racism👉🏻white versions more marketable to bigots.

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RocknRoll was influenced by Deep South black music. "There wasn't nobody playing it at the time but black people: me (Little Richard), Fats Domino, Chuck Berry. White kids started paying more attention to this music..."
Enter the likes of Elvis. #MusicEd
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An elderly white Protestant woman from rural northern Indiana described her time in the Ku Klux Klan movement of the 1920s w remarkable nonchalance, as "just a celebration...A way of growing up" WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender in the 1920s by KathleenMBlee #BlackLivesMatter 1/ The Klan fit easily into her daily life, as it did for many white Protestants in Indiana. At most, it was an exceptional chapter in an otherwise ordinary life. Even in hindsight, (continuing from WomenOfTheKlan - #Racism & Gender InThe 1920s by KathleenMBlee) #BlackLivesMatter 2/