A former leader of the Ku Klux Klan, who was serving a life sentence for the fatal bombing of a civil rights activist, has died in custody after suffering a heart attack. He was 82.
Samuel H. Bowers, an Imperial Wizard of the white supremacist group, was convicted eight years ago for ordering the 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer Sr, who campaigned for black rights during Mississippi state’s turbulent struggle for racial equality.
Mr Dahmer, a champion of equal voting rights for black people, died at the age of 58 after being fire-bombed outside his home in the middle of the night. The attack also saw his house and grocery store being torched.
Tara Booth, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said that Bowers had died yesterday at 11.30am in the Mississippi State Penitentiary Hospital in Parchman, a sprawling prison carved out of the cotton and soybean fields in the impoverished Mississippi Delta.
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