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Samuel Holloway Bowers, Jr. (August 6, 1924, -November 5, 2006), was Imperial Wizard of the Mississippi-based White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He was convicted in 1998 of ordering the fire bombing and death of a civil rights worker in 1966. Five earlier attempts to convict Bowers ended in hung juries.Samuel Bowers was serving a life sentence and died in prison in 2006 at age 82.
Contents
■	1 Early life
■	2 White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
■	3 Philosophy of the White Knights
■	4 Violent campaign
■	5 Notes
■	6 See also
■	7 External links
Early life
Bowers was bom in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Sam Bowers Sr., a salesman, and Evangeline Peyton. Both sides of his family were well educated and successful. One grandfather, Eaton J. Bowers, was a four-term Congressman from Mississippi and the other a Southern planter.1^ His parents divorced when he was fourteen.
Bowers attended Fortier High School but after the attack on Pearl Harbor left to join the Navy. After the war he studied a year at Tulane University and transferred to the University of Southern California as an
Samuel Holloway Bowers
Samuel Bowers
Born August 25, 1924
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
Died November 5, 2006 (aged 82) Mississippi State Penitentiary Sunflower County, Mississippi, U.S.
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