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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Birth 1939-11-06

Death 1964-06-21

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