Hattiesburg native Vernon Dahmer lost his life in 1966 to men who didn't think Black people deserved the right to vote. Dahmer never set out to become a martyr. He was a family man. A farmer.

“I think that it is important for our children to know our history,” Dahmer said. “I think it’s important for our children and our society to know about Mr. Vernon, because he was so brave.” ...

Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter and author of "Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era," will discuss his book as part of the annual Tupelo Reads ...

The mural tells the story of the historic summer, featuring portraits of Robert Moses and Vernon Dahmer. “The community that came out and was alive during that time and told us stories and sat ...

Harold Dahmer, a son of Vernon Dahmer, of Hattiesburg, who was killed in 1966 by the Ku Klux Klan, smiles when he sees a photograph of his younger self taken when he viewed the remains of their ...

"But he solved four." Mitchell's reporting resulted in convictions in the murders of Medgar Evers, Vernon Dahmer Sr., the four young girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing and the Freedom ...