The Resource When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie
When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie
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The item When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Milton Public Library.
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 382 pages
- Isbn
- 9781324005759
- Label
- When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer
- Title
- When evil lived in Laurel
- Title remainder
- the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer
- Statement of responsibility
- Curtis Wilkie
- Subject
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- African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History
- Bowers, Samuel Holloway, 1924-2006
- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History
- Landrum, Tom, 1932-
- Laurel (Miss.) -- Race relations
- United States, Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan -- History
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- NcU/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Wilkie, Curtis
- Dewey number
- 305.8009762/55
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E185.93.M6
- LC item number
- W55 2021
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand
- Landrum, Tom
- Bowers, Samuel Holloway
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
- United States
- African Americans
- African American civil rights workers
- Laurel (Miss.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm02081657
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 382 pages
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9781324005759
- Lccn
- 2021001786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- 4089556
- Label
- When evil lived in Laurel : the "White Knights" and the murder of Vernon Dahmer, Curtis Wilkie
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocm02081657
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- 382 pages
- Immediate source of acquisition
- LSC
- Isbn
- 9781324005759
- Lccn
- 2021001786
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- 4089556
Subject
- African Americans -- Crimes against -- Mississippi -- History
- Bowers, Samuel Holloway, 1924-2006
- Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand, 1908-1966
- African American civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History
- Landrum, Tom, 1932-
- Laurel (Miss.) -- Race relations
- United States, Federal Bureau of Investigation -- Officials and employees
- Ku Klux Klan (1915- ), White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan -- History
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