Michael Schwerner

1939 - 1964

Michael Schwerner

American civil rights activist.

Was Michael Schwerner Jewish?
Yes, Michael Schwerner was Jewish.
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Schwerner was murdered in 1964 by the Ku Klux Klan alongside fellow civil rights activists Andrew Goodman and James Chaney.

The three men had been volunteering to help Black people in Mississippi register to vote.

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Source: The Forward
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2014
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Source: HISTORY
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2009
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