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Vernon Dahmer Statue Unveiled in Forrest County

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Ellie Dahmer looks up joyfully after pulling the veil off a statue of her husband, Vernon Dahmer, a civil rights activist who died while saving her and their children when the Ku Klux Klan firebombed their home in 1966. Forrest County held the unveiling ceremony for the new statue on Jan. 6, 2020. Photo by Ashton Pittman

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