Rita Schwerner Bender

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Acting

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Female

birthday

1942-01-01

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Rita Levant Schwerner Bender

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.