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{{Villain_Infobox |Image = Samuel_Bowers.jpg |fullname = Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr. |alias = |origin = New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |occupation = Imperial Wizard of the [[Ku Klux Klan|White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan]] (1964 - 1989) |type of villain = [[White Supremacy|White Supremacist]] |goals = Get away with committing hate crimes (failed) |crimes = [[Murder]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Racism]]<br>[[Arson]]<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]<br>[[Negrophobia]]<br>[[Xenophobia]]<br>[[Homophobia]]<br>[[Misogyny]] |hobby = }}'''Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr.''' (August 25, 1924 β November 5, 2006) was a convicted murderer and leading [[White Supremacy|white supremacist]] activist in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement. In response to this movement, he co-founded the White Knights of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and became a Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard. Bowers orchestrated two [[murder]]s of civil rights activists in southern Mississippi: The 1964 [[Freedom Summer murders|murders of Chaney, Goodman, and 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.
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