Rita Schwerner Bender

Birth : 1942-01-01,

History

Rita Levant Schwerner Bender is a 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.

Movies

Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer
Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
In the summer of 1964, more than 700 students descended on violent, segregated Mississippi. Defying authorities, they registered voters, created freedom schools, and established the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Fifty years later, eyewitness accounts and never-before-seen archival material tell their story. Not all of them would make it through.