Rita Schwerner Bender

Rita Schwerner Bender, widow of civil rights worker Michael Schwerner, who was murdered in 1964, outside the courthouse in Neshoba County, Mississippi, during the 2005 trial of Edgar Ray Killen for the murder of Schwerner and two other civil rights workers. Photograph by Kate Medley. Courtesy of Kate Medley.

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Jewish Women's Archive. "Rita Schwerner Bender." (Viewed on November 21, 2024) <https://jwa.org/media/rita-schwerner-bender>.