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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 in the Freedom Summer of 1964, where Michael was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan.
22 lug 2014 · Rita Bender, 22 when her husband Michael Schwerner was killed by the Klan in Mississippi in 1964, says challenges remain in the fight for racial justice.
Rita Schwerner Bender, widow of civil rights worker Michael Schwerner, who was murdered in 1964, outside the courthouse in Neshoba County, Mississippi, during the 2005 trial of Edgar Ray Killen for the murder of Schwerner and two other civil rights workers.
23 giu 2005 · World. Klan victim widow says race a factor in verdict. With every eye fixed on her, Rita Schwerner Bender calmly leaned forward in the witness chair and took the Mississippi courtroom back to a...
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21 giu 2020 · Rita Schwerner Bender stood on the lawn of the Philadelphia courthouse tackling rapid-fire questioning with the same iron-clad composure, poise and presence as she had done back in 1964 in Mississippi.
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24 giu 1989 · Twenty-five years after confronting a President to demand federal help in finding the body of her murdered husband, Rita Schwerner Bender was back at the White House Friday confronting another...
