Lemuel Penn’s children, photographed soon after his death in July 1964

ID: 3798 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, © Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr: 1622 Upshur Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr: 1622 Upshur Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Legal Campaigns - Lemuel Penn, Civil Rights Martyr: 1622 Upshur Street NW

By DC Historic Preservation Office

DC native Lemuel A. Penn was an educator, a decorated World War II veteran and an Army reservist. He was also a civil rights martyr.