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Rita schwerner bender biography of alberta

          Schwerner's widow, Rita, remained in Mississippi following the murders and continued to work in the civil rights movement, pressuring then FBI Director J. Edgar.!

          Rita Schwerner Bender, the widow of a civil rights worker killed elsewhere in Mississippi in , said there is value in American society re-examining long.

        1. Schwerner's widow, Rita Schwerner Bender, said on the day Killen was convicted that the slayings were part of a larger problem of violence.
        2. Schwerner's widow, Rita, remained in Mississippi following the murders and continued to work in the civil rights movement, pressuring then FBI Director J. Edgar.
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          5. Rita Schwerner Bender

          Civil rights activist and lawyer (born 1942)

          Rita Schwerner Bender (née Levant; born 1942) is an American 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.

          As his young widow, she drew national attention for her commentary on racial prejudice in the United States, delivered at a press conference after her husband went missing. After the Civil Rights Movement, Schwerner became an attorney,[1] practicing family law in Washington state.

          She continues to advocate for civil rights through her law practice and public presentations.

          Early life

          Rita Levant and Michael Schwerner both grew up in New York City.[2] They married when she was 20 and he was 22.[3]

          Activism

          The Schwerners became active in the civil rights movement first in the north; she and Michael were both arrested at a civil rights protest in