Rita Schwerner Bender

🎂 1st January 1942 (84 yrs)

Known For

Biography

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 Featuring Rita Schwerner Bender

Freedom Summer (2014)

as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee