Rita Schwerner Bender

Known for

Acting

Born

January 1, 1942 (age 84)

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.

Best known work

Freedom Summer

2014

Filmography

2014
Freedom Summer
as Self - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee