Schwerner, Michael Henry, 1939-1964

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Michael Henry Schwerner (November 6, 1939 – June 21, 1964) was one of three Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) field workers killed in rural Neshoba County, Mississippi, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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referencedIn Presidential Photographs, 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017 Barack H. Obama Library
referencedIn General Records of the Department of Justice. 1790 - 2002. Class 144 (Civil Rights) Litigation Case Files National Archives at College Park
referencedIn Sugarman, Tracy. Papers of Tracy Sugarman, 1964-1965, 2004. University of Virginia. Library
referencedIn Civil rights handouts Boston Athenaeum
referencedIn Civil Rights Files, 1963 - 1966 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
referencedIn General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006. Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789 - 2013. National Archives Library, National Archives Records Administration
referencedIn Andrew Goodman Memorial collection 1943-2010 [bulk 1946-2000] New York Public Library System, NYPL
referencedIn Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.). Records, 1964-1966. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Freedom Information Service. Records, 1962-1979. Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project
referencedIn Records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1896 - 2008. Classification 44 (Civil Rights) Headquarters Case Files, 1/1/1920 - 12/31/1987 National Archives at College Park
referencedIn White House Telephone Recordings and Transcripts, 11/22/1963 - 1/3/1969 Lyndon Baines Johnson Library
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memberOf Congress of Racial Equality corporateBody
associatedWith Freedom Information Service. corporateBody
associatedWith Goodman, Andrew, 1943-1964. person
associatedWith Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Lauderdale County (Miss.) corporateBody
associatedWith Sugarman, Tracy. person
Place Name Admin Code Country
Philadelphia MS US
Bronx NY US
Subject
Civil rights movements
Occupation
Civil rights workers
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Birth 1939-11-06

Death 1964-06-21

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