In the early morning hours of January 10, 1966, about 10 miles outside of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the home of businessman and activist Vernon Dahmer was firebombed. Dahmer was a successful black businessman who was active in the NAACP and the voting rights movement. Dahmer’s wife, Elli, and their children managed to escape, but Dahmer lost […]

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