Rita Schwerner Bender
Personal information
- Known for
- Acting
- Known credits
- 1
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- January 1, 1942
- Also known as
- Rita Levant Schwerner Bender
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.
