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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.
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.
28 giu 2021 · On June 21, 1964, civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner were ambushed and shot dead by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi
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Il 6 gennaio 2005, un grand jury della contea di Neshoba incriminò Killen per tre casi di omicidio e quando il Procuratore generale del Mississippi lo perseguì fu la prima volta che lo Stato agì contro gli assassini; Rita Bender, vedova di Michael Schwerner, testimoniò al processo.
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...
18 apr 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.
13 nov 2009 · Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are killed by a Ku Klux Klan mob near Meridian, Mississippi. The three young civil rights workers were working to register Black...
