Lemuel Penn’s children, photographed soon after his death in July 1964
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr
Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr
Lemuel Penn was shot and killed by Ku Klux Klan night riders on July 11, 1964, just nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The new federal law, which prohibited racial discrimination in employment and by businesses and other…