Photographic portrait of Lemuel Penn

ID: 3800 ~ 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.