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