On this day in 1964, Klansmen killed Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, an assistant school superintendent, as he was driving home from Army Reserves training.
by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Today July 11, 2023 JULY 11, 1964 Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn is featured in the Civil Rights Memorial Center at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. Lt. Col. Lemuel Penn, an assistant superintendent for Washington, D.C., public schools, was driving home with two fellow officers from the U.S. Army Reserves training when he was shot and killed by three Klansmen in a passing car in Colbert, Georgia.
This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.
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