Michael Schwerner

Born

November 6, 1939

Died

June 21, 1964 (aged 24)

Known as

social worker

Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner was an American civil-rights activist. He was one of three civil rights 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.

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