usm_coh_ohdahmere ohdahmere coh usm yes Oral history with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer Dahmer, Ellie J., 1925- African American women--Mississippi--Interviews African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews African Americans--Mississippi African American civil rights workers--Mississippi Civil rights workers--Mississippi Civil rights--Mississippi Civil rights movements--Mississippi Married persons--Mississippi Widowers--Mississippi Wives--Mississippi Bombings--Mississippi Hate crimes--Mississippi Victims of violent crimes--Mississippi Violence--Mississippi Civil rights workers--Violence against--Mississippi African Americans--Violence against--Mississippi High schools--Alumni and alumnae--Mississippi Race relations Teachers--Mississippi College students--Mississippi College graduates--Mississippi African Americans--Education (Higher) African American universities and colleges--Mississippi Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College--Students Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Dahmer, Ellie J., 1925- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966 Oral history. Interview conducted on July 2, 1974 with Mrs. Ellie J. Dahmer at her home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Dahmer was born in Jasper County, Mississippi in 1925. After completing high school at Jasper County Training School she attended Alcorn A&M College, now Alcorn State University. After her sophomore year, she transferred to Tennessee A&F in Nashville, Tennessee where she finished her degree. In 1951, she began teaching in Forrest County, Mississippi. It was there that Dahmer met and married Vernon Dahmer, a civil rights' activist and two-term president of the local chapter of the NAACP. In 1966, the Dahmer's house was firebombed by the Klu Klux Klan as a result of Vernon Dahmer's work in the civil rights movement in Mississippi. Vernon Dahmer died shortly thereafter due to lung damage caused by smoke inhalation. Ellie Dahmer taught school for many years in Richton, Mississippi until her retirement in 1987. Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. Hattiesburg, Miss.: University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Caudill, Orley B. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi) Mississippi Oral History Program Collection (Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive) 2002-02-13 Transcripts Oral histories http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/coh,1547 (Extent) Digital reproduction of 42-page document. Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi, vol. 281, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of the Mississippi Oral History Program Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. Forms part of the Mississippi Digital Library. 1974-07-02 Mississippi Hattiesburg (Miss.) Forrest County (Miss.) Jasper County (Miss.) Nashville (Tenn.) Richton (Miss.) Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. 20090817 151132