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    Rita Schwerner Bender

    1942-01-01 (82 years old) in

    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.

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    Freedom Summer
    72 %|Jan 17, 2014
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