Rita Schwerner Bender
January 1, 1942 (84 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2014 | Freedom Summer · as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee |
| 1988 | American Experience · as Self - Civil Rights Activist |