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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
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.
- Shooting
- Neshoba County, Mississippi, U.S.
- June 21, 1964; 59 years ago
28 giu 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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L' assassinio degli attivisti per i diritti civili del Mississippi fu l'evento accaduto nella notte tra il 21 ed il 22 giugno 1964, quando tre attivisti del movimento per i diritti civili degli afroamericani ( African-American Civil Rights Movement ), James Earl Chaney, Andrew Goodman e Michael Schwerner, vennero uccisi a colpi di pistola da un ...
- notte tra il 21 e 22 giugno 1964
- Stati Uniti
- Agguato con armi da fuoco
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 voters in...
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...
3 giorni fa · 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...
