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Vernon Bown

Released
Date of birth:14. 10. 1917
Date of death:23. 03. 2012
Age:94† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Kentucky
Support
Civil Rights Communism
Vernon Bown

Biography

Vernon Bown was a Lincoln Brigade veteran who guarded the Wade house after a Black family bought a home in a white Louisville neighborhood in 1954. He was charged under Kentucky sedition law and also with the bombing of the house, and was jailed under bail set at $10,000 to $20,000.

Case

Charges: Kentucky sedition / criminal syndicalism.
Incarcerated: September 1954