Bowers, Samuel Holloway b. August 6, 1924 d. November 5, 2006 Criminal. As Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, he ordered the murders of civil rights workers James Cheney, Mickey Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, which took place in June 1964 in Neshoba County, Mississippi - a case that became known as the "Mississippi Burning" case. He was convicted of civil rights violations and spent six years in federal prison until his release in 1970. In 1998 he was convicted in Mississippi for the murder of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer, who...[Read More] (Bio by: Erik Lander) Mississippi State Prison Cemetery, Parchman, Sunflower County, Mississippi, USA
b. August 6, 1924 d. November 5, 2006