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Chargement... When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmerpar Curtis Wilkie
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This book centers around a Ku Klux Klan murder of a Black voting rights activist trying to register voters in rural Mississippi. We really get to see the inner workings of the Klan there in the 1960's and 1970's. Vernon Dahmer died as a result of a house fire set by two carloads of Klan members. We get an inside look at the planning, commission and aftermath (as well as other Klan sponsered violence) of this event. Much of the data comes from a Klan member secretly working with the FBI giving them reports. A fascinating look into a terrible time when brutality and hate were the norm for many. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A riveting account of the incident and its aftermath, When Evil Lived in Laurel is a tale of obsession, in which the infamous Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers became so fixated on killing Dahmer that the bungled attack ultimately led to Bowers's downfall and the destruction of his virulently racist organization. Drawing on the diary of a former Klan infiltrator who risked his life to help break the White Knights, veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)305.8009762Social sciences Social Sciences; Sociology and anthropology Groups of people Ethnic and national groups ; racism, multiculturalism General Biography And History North America South Central U.S.Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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