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Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966

Biography:

Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based, African American civil rights worker, Dahmer was a local NAACP official, farmer, and storekeeper. On January 10, 1966, Ku Klux Klan members firebombed his home in response to his voter registration efforts. Dahmer died of injuries received during the incident.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Child with minister (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Children and MFDP sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Clarence Williams sings (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Girls near MFDP sign (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guitar lesson (1) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Guitar lesson (2) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Letter, Jill Wakeman (Goodman) to friends; June 23, 1966 (Text)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (3) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing at Dahmer fish fry (4) (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing during orientation, close-up (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Singing outside Freedom House (Black-and-white photographs)
  • St. Paul United Methodist Church exterior view (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Standing around the cooler (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Staughton Lynd lectures to Freedom School teachers (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray (Adams) speaks at MFDP meeting at St. John (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Victoria Jackson Gray and Lorne Cress (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Volunteers in Hattiesburg (Black-and-white photographs)
• Encyclopedia of Alabama (Encyclopedia of Alabama)
  • Catholicism and the Civil Rights Movement (Articles)
• Freedom summer digital collection (Wisconsin Historical Society)
  • Beech--Robert Beech papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 2, Folder 2 (Correspondence)
  • Moore--Correspondence, 1965-1966 (Amzie Moore papers, 1941-1970; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 551, Box 1 Folder 6) (Correspondence)
• Integration Correspondence (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • Daisy Mal to "Hi Meredith" (1 October 1962) (Correspondence)
  • Denise Lemane to "Dear James" (10 October 1962) (Correspondence)
  • Eveline Bowley to Mr. Meredith (10 September 1962) (Correspondence)
• James W. Silver Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
  • W.B. Hamilton to Jim, 21 August 1957 (Correspondence)
• Oral Histories: Interviews with Sam H. Bowers, Jr. (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Sound recordings of oral history interviews with Sam H. Bowers, Jr. (Oral histories)
  • Transcripts of oral history interviews with Sam H. Bowers, Jr. (Oral histories)