Samuel Bowers American Activist
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| First Name |
Samuel
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| Last Name |
Bowers
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| Birthday |
25th August, 1924
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| Birthplace |
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
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| Died |
5th November, 2006
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| Place of Death |
Sunflower County, Mississippi
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| Buried |
Parchman Farm Cemetery, Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA
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| Zodiac Sign |
Virgo
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| Nationality |
American
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| Occupation |
Activist
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Samuel Holloway Bowers (August 25, 1924 – November 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and leading white supremacist in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. In response to this movement and perceived threats to national security from Judaism and Communism, he co-founded the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and became its Imperial Wizard. Bowers was best known for committing two murders of civil rights activists in southern Mississippi. He was responsible for the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner near Philadelphia, for which he served six years in federal prison; and the 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer in Hattiesburg, for which he was sentenced to life in prison 32 years after the crime. He also was accused of bombings of Jewish targets in the cities of Jackson and Meridian in 1967 and 1968 (according to the man who was convicted of some of the bombings, Thomas A. Tarrants III). He died in prison at the age of 82.
