Post by Logan on Jan 17, 2016 0:37:02 GMT -6
Mississippi KKK case from 50 years ago shows why voting is so important
On a cold southern night 50 years ago, two carloads of Ku Klux Klan thugs hurtled toward Hattiesburg, Miss., on a mission to keep representative Democracy from invading their sovereign state.
The target that night, Jan. 10, 1966, was a house and adjacent grocery store that catered to a rural black clientele north of Hattiesburg.
The proprietor had been registering black voters, and the KKK was fixin’ to teach him a lesson.
The store owner was Vernon Dahmer, 57, a Mississippi bootstrapper. With a 10th-grade education, he overcame long odds to become a prosperous black businessman who owned the store, a 200-acre cotton farm and a sawmill.
Continue reading at www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mississippi-kkk-case-50-years-shows-voting-matters-article-1.2499021 .
Cross-posted on the General Discussion sub-board.
On a cold southern night 50 years ago, two carloads of Ku Klux Klan thugs hurtled toward Hattiesburg, Miss., on a mission to keep representative Democracy from invading their sovereign state.
The target that night, Jan. 10, 1966, was a house and adjacent grocery store that catered to a rural black clientele north of Hattiesburg.
The proprietor had been registering black voters, and the KKK was fixin’ to teach him a lesson.
The store owner was Vernon Dahmer, 57, a Mississippi bootstrapper. With a 10th-grade education, he overcame long odds to become a prosperous black businessman who owned the store, a 200-acre cotton farm and a sawmill.
Continue reading at www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mississippi-kkk-case-50-years-shows-voting-matters-article-1.2499021 .
Cross-posted on the General Discussion sub-board.