Photo, Print, Drawing Vernon Dahmer trail - Sam Bowers trial. Family sits in old 'colored' section in Hattiesburg courthouse / Pat Lopez.
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Title
- Vernon Dahmer trail - Sam Bowers trial. Family sits in old 'colored' section in Hattiesburg courthouse / Pat Lopez.
Summary
- Drawing shows the family of civil rights activist and NAACP leader Vernon F. Dahmer, Sr., seated in a balcony of the "old colored section" of the courthouse in Hattiesburg, Mississippi; Dahmer died when his home was firebombed on January 10, 1966, by members of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan organized by Samuel H. Bowers. Bowers, who had been a Klan Wizard in the 1960s, faced trial for the fifth time in 1998.
Names
- Lopez, Pat, 1954-, artist
Created / Published
- [1998]
Headings
- - Bowers, Samuel Holloway,--1924-2006--Trials, litigation, etc
- - Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand,--1908-1966--Family
- - Dahmer, Vernon Ferdinand,--1908-1966--Assassination--Mississippi
- - Ku Klux Klan (1915- ).--White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
- - Judicial proceedings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1990-2000
- - Courtrooms--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1990-2000
- - Bombings--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1960-1970
- - Homicides--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1960-1970
- - Racism--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1960-1970
- - Civil rights leaders--Mississippi--Hattiesburg--1960-1970
Headings
- Courtroom sketches--1990-2000.
- Drawings--Color--1990-2000.
Genre
- Courtroom sketches--1990-2000
- Drawings--Color--1990-2000
Notes
- - Caption label from exhibit Drawing Justice: Vernon Dahmer's Family at Klan Wizard's Trial. On January 10, 1966, Ku Klux Klan members firebombed the house and country store of local NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer, sending his family members fleeing into the night. While defending his home, Dahmer succumbed to smoke inhalation just hours after the attack. Dahmer had been urging African Americans to register to vote and had offered to help pay their poll tax. Although local Klan Wizard Sam Bowers had won acquittal in several trials, the family asked Lindsay Carter, District Attorney of Forrest County, Mississippi, and his assistant Bob Helfrich to reopen the case. On August 17, 1998, Bowers faced trial for the fifth time and was sentenced to life in prison. Here, Dahmer's widow, Ellie Dahmer, and some of his children and grandchildren sit in the "old colored section" of the Hattiesburg Court House.
- - Title from item.
- - Signed on lower right.
- - Gift/Purchase; Pat Lopez; 2014; (DLC/PP-2014:178).
- - Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.
- - C2, F5
Medium
- 1 drawing on lavender paper : colored pencil and graphite ; sheet 48.3 x 63.6 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2014:178, no. 91 [P&P]
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
Digital Id
- ppmsca 51120 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.51120
Library of Congress Control Number
- 2017645103
Reproduction Number
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-51120 (digital file from original drawing)
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- Rights status not evaluated. For general information see "Copyright and Other Restrictions...," https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/195_copr.html
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