Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966

LC control no.	n 2001028379
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1908-03-10
Death date	1966-01-10
Place of birth	Hattiesburg (Miss.)
Place of death	Hattiesburg (Miss.)
Affiliation	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. National Council of Churches. Delta Ministry
Profession or occupation	Civil rights workers Social reformers
Found in	Bates, Ruth Lindsey. Before there was a Mississippi, c1999: p. 58, etc. (Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer; b. Mar. 10, 1908, Kelly Settlement, Hattiesburg, Miss.; pres. Hattiesburg Branch of NAACP, killed, 1966, in fire-bombing) African American National Biography, accessed December 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand; civil rights activist, lynching victim, social reformer; born 10 March 1908 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States; the eighth of twelve children of a white father and a mother of mixed racial heritage; became a successful commercial farmer and businessman; became president of the county NAACP (1956); allowed his grocery store to act as a polling place (1963); worked closely with the National Council of Churches' Delta Ministry; registered to vote (1965); announced on local radio that he would collect the poll tax for registrants at his store and pay it for those who could not afford to (1966); Ku Klux Klansmen burned his store and house; died in hospital from burns later that afternoon.; died 10 January 1966 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States)