12 Facts About Samuel Bowers

Samuel Bowers's maternal grandfather had a plantation while his father's father, Eaton J Bowers, was a four-term Congressman from Mississippi's Gulf Coast.

Representative Samuel Bowers was an explicitly virulent opponent of equality for African Americans.

Samuel Bowers was among the first group of staff members hired after the state legislature approved of and passed a free textbook program championed by Governor Paul B Johnson Sr.

Samuel Bowers started his own small business, Sambo Amusement Company, variously reported to be a pinball machine business and a vending machine business.

Samuel Bowers, along with many other southern whites during the Cold War, was antagonistic toward the civil rights movement, believing that it was a movement which was led by the far left and organized by the Communist Party, and he began to express racist political views in the late 1950s.

Samuel Bowers came to believe that the Soviet Union was a front for Jewish elites which were seeking to overthrow Christianity as the dominant religion of Western society, that Fidel Castro's government in Cuba was recruiting and providing military training to blacks as part of a plot to invade the Gulf Coast, and that the US federal government would use the invasion as a pretext to federalize the National Guard and deport all whites from his home state of Mississippi.

Samuel Bowers was appointed Grand Dragon of Mississippi by Imperial Wizard Roy Davis in 1959 or 1960.

Samuel Bowers believed that the original Ku Klux Klan was too passive.

Samuel Bowers was released in 1976 and then worked as a Sunday School teacher.

However, it was later determined that Samuel Bowers was not involved in their deaths.

Samuel Bowers agreed to cooperate to receive a reduced sentence.

Samuel Bowers died in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital of cardiopulmonary arrest on Sunday, November 5,2006, aged 82.