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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Tue Aug 21, 2012, 09:53 AM Aug 2012

Today in Peace and Justice history on August 21, 1998

Samuel Bowers, the 73-year-old former Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, was convicted in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, of ordering a firebombing that killed civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer 32 years before . . . On Vernon Dahmer’s tombstone are the words, “If you don’t vote, you don’t count.” VOTE > http://peacebuttons.info/orderpp.htm

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