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.
Louisville Public Media’s 2014 chronology reports a second sedition indictment on November 4, 1954, naming Carl and Anne Braden, Vernon Bown, I. O. Ford and Lew Lubka. It describes the accusation as a conspiracy to achieve communism. This additional count does not establish a separate custody interval.
Louisville Public Media, December 1, 2014, chronology supplied by the Anne Braden Institute.
