Murder of Lemuel Penn
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title:
Murder of Lemuel Penn
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Lemuel Augustus Penn was the Assistant Superintendent of Washington, D.C. public schools, a decorated veteran of World War II and a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve who was murdered by members of the Ku Klux Klan, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. An African American, Lemuel Penn joined the Army Reserve from Howard University and served as an officer in World War II in New Guinea and the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star. When he was murdered at th
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wiki
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American murder victim (1915–1964)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Lemuel_Penn
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2023-09-14T03:41:34Z
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