On this day, 10 January 1966, voting rights activist Vernon Dahmer was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. While he managed to save his wife (pictured with a photo of Vernon) and child, he died from severe burns and smoke inhalation the following day.
He had offered to pay the poll tax for anyone who could not afford to register to vote: which would have helped enfranchise more African-Americans. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1319914128193734/?type=3
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