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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, a social worker, and his wife, Rita Schwerner, a teacher, were working on efforts to integrate the building trades in New York City when civil rights groups began organizing...
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.
22 de jun. de 2022 · Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman y James Chaney fueron asesinados por la mafia del Ku Klux Klan, el 21 de junio de 1964, cerca de Meridian, Mississippi.
- Andrea Espinoza
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning murders, were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964, during the Civil Rights Movement.
27 de jun. de 2021 · Killings of civil rights activists James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner sparked national outrage and helped spur passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act.
