Michael Schwerner
1939
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1964
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
Country of citizenship: United States
Languages spoken, written or signed: English
Educated at: Columbia University, Cornell University, Columbia University School of Social Work, Pelham Memorial High School
Occupation: social worker
Award received: Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two co-workers, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman, were killed in response to their civil rights work, which included promoting voting registration among African Americans, most of whom had been disenfranchised in the state since 1890. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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