When Evil Lived in Laurel: The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer

"Journalist Curtis Wilkie, who covered many key moments in the civil rights movement, takes a deep dive into the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist terrorist organization operating out of Laurel, Miss., in the 1960s. This book reads like a Greg Iles novel, but it’s sadly the true story of how KKK leader Sam Bowers orchestrated the firebombing that killed NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer (and had a hand in other notorious civil rights era killings). The account is rich with details recorded by an FBI informant who had infiltrated the klan."