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Vernon Dahmer
1908–1966
United States
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Biography
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer Sr. (March 10, 1908 – January 10, 1966) was an American civil rights movement leader and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In January 1966 Dahmer was murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for his work in registering Black Americans to vote.
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