Michael Schwerner - Honors

Honors

New York City named "Freedom Place," a four-block stretch in Manhattan's Upper West Side, in honor of Schwerner, Goodman and Chaney. A plaque on 70th Street and Freedom Place (Riverside Blvd) tells his story.

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