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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) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
- Mickey Schwerner
- Michael Henry Schwerner, November 6, 1939, The Bronx, New York, U.S.
- Presidential Medal of Freedom, (Posthumous; 2014)
- Murder
Michael Schwerner | Un (re)solved | FRONTLINE | PBS| Web Interactive. Michael Schwerner, a social worker, and his wife, Rita Schwerner, a teacher, were working on efforts to integrate the...
Michael Schwerner; Perpetrators: White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan: Motive: White supremacy: Accused: Lawrence A. Rainey; Bernard L. Akin; Travis M. Barnette; James T. Harris; Frank J. Herndon; Olen Lovell Burrage; Herman Tucker; Richard A. Willis; Ethel Glen Barnett; Jerry McGrew Sharpe; Convicted: Cecil Price; Samuel Bowers; Alton ...
- Shooting
- Neshoba County, Mississippi, U.S.
- June 21, 1964; 59 years ago
28 de jun. de 2021 · The 1964 killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner in Neshoba County sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act....
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18 de abr. de 2023 · Michael Schwerner, a twenty-four-year-old former New York social worker, was an established civil rights organizer with COFO working in and around Meridian and Philadelphia. In 1964, Schwerner teamed up with James Chaney, a twenty-one-year-old African-American COFO volunteer from Meridian.
7 de abr. de 2022 · Who Will Remember the Mississippi Murders? - The Atlantic. The site in Philadelphia, Mississippi, where James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in 1964. ( Nate Palmer...
Hace 1 día · Mickey Schwerner. Credit: Edward Hollander. Over the course of the summer of 1964, members of the Klan burned 20 black Mississippi churches. On June 16, Klan members targeted Neshoba County's...
