Michael Schwerner, American civil rights activist (born 1939)

Michael Schwerner

American activist and murder victim (1939–1964)

Michael Henry "Mickey" Schwerner was an American civil rights activist. He was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers murdered in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan. Schwerner and two co-workers, James Chaney and Andrew…