2014Nominee
Best Performance
Freedom Summer
Rita Schwerner Bender
Actor
January 1, 1942
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.
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Freedom Summer