In Search of Sam Bowers

Type 
Document
Year 
1994
Creator(s) 
Charles Marsh (author)
Container 
Project on Lived Theology Archives
Doc # 
5SB01.04
Additional information 

Document Description: 32 page typed document; located in the PLT Archive folder "Bowers-Interview 1994"; rough drafts of document also found in the PLT Paper Archive as Doc #5SB05.03 and #5SB05.04. 

Rights 
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People
Appell, Donald T.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Bowers, E.J.
Bowers, Sam
Bush, George H. W.
Byrd, Lawrence
Chaney, James
Christopherson, Kenneth E.
Cone, James
Dahmer, Vernon
Dean, Ken
Forman, Jim
Goodman, Andrew
Hitler, Adolf
Larson, Robert
Nelson, Jack
Nix, Deavors
Nixon, Richard
O'Reilly, Kenneth
Paine, Thomas
Pickering, Charles
Pitts, Billy Roy
Price, Leontyne
Roberts, Alton Wayne
Schwerner, Michael
Schwerner, Rita
Sessum, Cecil
Sims, Patsy
Tew, Lowell
Places
Hattiesburg, MS Jackson, MS Laurel, MS Meridian, MS
Mississippi Neshoba County, MS
Dates
1964 1967 1994
Scenes
1960-1963 -- Incarnational Organizing: Students Become a Major Force in the Struggle for Civil Rights
1964 -- The Crest of the Civil Rights Movement: Freedom Summer Successes and Fallout
1965-1968 -- The Fragmenting of the Civil Rights Movement: Ideological Differences Destroy Fragile Unity
Themes
Activism: Personal Sacrifice, Community Organizing and Visions of a New Order
Faith Influencing Action: Testimonials and Theological Perspectives
Violence: Jim Crow South and the Anti-Civil Rights Movement
Other
activism, voter registration American Association of University Professors
anti-civil rights work anti-semitism
Bible Bible, Ephesians
Bible, Psalms Church
Church, Baptist Church, Lutheran
Church, Methodist Church, Pentecostal
Church, Southern Baptist communism
Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) Democratic Party
faith, Calvinist faith, evangelism
faith, Holy Spirit Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Freedom Summer Project Hattiesburg American
House Un-American Activities Committee Jackson Clarion Ledger
Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Laurel Leader Call
legal proceedings McNeil Island Federal Prison
Mississippi Council on Human Relations (MCHR) National Alliance
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) New York Times
Pacific Lutheran University Passe Commitatis
predestination Sambo Amusement Company
segregation Segregation and the Bible
Turner Diaries violence, attacks on communities of faith
violence, beatings violence, bombing
violence, cross burning violence, murder
violence, terror White Citizens' Council
White Knights of Ku Klux Klan of Mississippi (WKKKKOM)