Rita Schwerner Bender

Born: 1942-01-01

Rita Levant Schwerner Bender is a civil rights activist and lawyer. She and her first husband Michael Schwerner participated in the Freedom Summer of 1964, where Michael was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.


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Freedom Summer

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Released: 2014-01-17

In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi....

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