Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America's Civil Rights Murders

by Renee Romano,
The Florida Courier, November 21, 2014

On July 11, 1964, Ku Klux Klansmen shot and killed Lemuel Penn, a 49-year old assistant superintendent of schools in Washington D.C., as he and two companions were driving home after two weeks of Army reserve training in Fort Benning, GA.