In this Aug. 23, 1964 file photo, Bruce Solomon, of Brooklyn, New York, teaches a class for young black students about arts, African American history and rights at a "Freedom School" in Jackson ...

Schwerner's widow, Rita Bender, accepted the award on his behalf, and David Goodman accepted the award for his brother. This past Sunday would have been Andy Goodman's 71st birthday.

Rita Schwerner Bender told of moving with her husband, Michael Schwerner, to operate a "freedom school" for blacks in the fiercely segregated Mississippi of 1964. Back then, she had described ...

Rita Schwerner Bender, a civil rights activist, spoke about Schwerner, her first husband. Family and friends called him Mickey. “Mickey and James were murdered because of their ability to work with ...

His brother organized and his sister-in-law, Rita, ran a freedom school, Schwerner said. The head of the KKK gave the Meridian, Mississippi, chapter permission to kill Mickey as a race traitor.

Another shows Schwerner’s determined wife Rita Schwerner, as a CORE worker herself, carrying on work with others in Meridian, Mississippi. There is also a photograph that well captures the determined ...

Klansman Ray Killen is charged with the notorious murders of three civil rights workers in the American state of Mississippi in 1964. The case against him has re-opened the history file on the ...

Censorship campaigns recall the much more violent attacks on freedom libraries for Black readers in the Deep South, which sometimes faced bombings and murders.

Schwerner’s wife, Rita, told several news outlets that she believed her husband was alive, and she called out the press for picking up the story of murdered CORE workers only when two white men ...