- Collection:
- Oral History
- Title:
- Oral history with Ellie Dahmer
- Creator:
- Caudill, Orley B
Dahmer, Ellie J., 1925- - Publisher:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
- Date of Original:
- 1974
- Subject:
- Mississippi
Sharecropping
Education
Lumber
Teaching
Race relations
Civil rights
Voter Registration
Racism
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Church
Family Life
Farm life
Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College
Tennessee Agricultural and Industrial State College
Terrorism - People:
- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966
Dahmer, Ellie J., 1925- --Interviews - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- 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 Ku 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.
This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. - Metadata URL:
- https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_05c0bdff-a6ee-412d-adc8-08fb7c44f2a8
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- University Libraries provides access to these materials for educational and research purposes. 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. When possible, we have provided information regarding the copyright right status of an item; however, the information we have may not be accurate or complete. Obtaining permissions to publish or otherwise use is the sole responsibility of the user.
- Original Collection:
- Civil Rights Documentation Project
F341.5 .M57 vol. 281 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
- Rights:
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