Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)...
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The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi...
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Rita Schwerner Bender (née Levant; born 1942) is an American civil rights activist and lawyer. She and her first husband, Michael Schwerner, participated...
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Joan Trumpauer Mulholland (section Michael Schwerner)
Michael and Rita Schwerner an "orientation" on what you need to know about being a white activist in the state of Mississippi. The next day, Michael was...
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Jews in the civil rights movement (section Murder of Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Mississippi)
segregation. During the Freedom Summer, the deaths of Jewish activists Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman, alongside Black activist James Chaney, resulted...
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Schwerner is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Armand Schwerner (1927–1999), American poet Michael Schwerner (1939–1964), civil-rights...
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Andrew Goodman (activist) (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
Klan in 1964. Goodman and two fellow activists, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, were volunteers for the Freedom Summer campaign that sought to register...
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James Chaney (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964. The others were Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. James Chaney was born the eldest son of Fannie...
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Michael Eric Dyson (born October 23, 1958) is an American academic, author, Baptist minister, and radio host. He is a professor in the College of Arts...
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Mississippi Burning (category Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner)
researching the 1964 murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. He and producer Frederick Zollo presented it to Orion Pictures, and...
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