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Vernon Dahmer, Sr.
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A Mississippi man who fought Jim Crow-era laws to ensure that Black citizens could vote, Vernon Dahmer, Sr. died defending his family from a white supremacist attack.
“You get them out while I try to hold them off!” Vernon Dahmer shouted as he passed 10-year-old Bettie, already badly burned from the flames engulfing their home, out a back window to his wife.
The date was January 10, 1966.
The place: Hattiesburg, Forrest County, Mississippi. As the Dahmer home and store went up in flames, Vernon Dahmer’s courage and quick thinking saved his family. Grabbing one of several loaded shotguns he always kept nearby, he returned fire on his attackers, trying to give the rest of his family time to get out.
Vernon dahmer biography
As his son Dennis later said, “There were about eight of them shooting at my dad. He’s shooting back at them. Running through the house while they’re burning the house, shooting the windows out, throwing gallons of g