Michael Schwerner
Michael Schwerner · Civil Rights & Human Rights
CORE field worker murdered by the Klan alongside James Chaney and Andrew Goodman during Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964.
1939, Pelham, New York, USA — 1964, Neshoba County, Mississippi, USA
New York City; Meridian, Mississippi
Michael Schwerner is recognized among Jewish contributors to Civil Rights & Human Rights — CORE field worker murdered by the Klan alongside James Chaney and Andrew Goodman during Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964.
Michael 'Mickey' Schwerner, born to a Jewish family in New York, was a CORE field worker who went to Mississippi in 1964 to register Black voters during Freedom Summer. He was murdered by the Ku Klux Klan alongside James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, a killing that shocked the nation and helped spur passage of civil-rights and voting-rights legislation. The three were posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2014.
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Source: Wikipedia (Mississippi civil rights workers' murders); My Jewish Learning
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CORE field worker murdered by the Klan alongside James Chaney and Andrew Goodman during Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964.
Source: Wikipedia (Mississippi civil rights workers' murders); My Jewish Learning
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