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...Liberty, Mississippi; four girls, killed in the Birmingham church bombing; Johnny Robinson, a 16-year-old shot by police after the Birmingham bombings; William L. Moore, the white postman murdered near Attala, Alabama; Medgar Evers, assassinated in Mississippi; James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, lynched near Philadelphia, Mississippi; Lemuel A. Penn, the educator slain near Athens, Georgia; the Negro burned to death in Louisiana last fall; the two multilated bodies found in the Mississippi River last summer; the man recently shot to death by police in a Jackson, Mississippi jail. At least a dozen more could be added...
...Gallery runs a brooding fury that links the cartoonist with the socially satirical art of Goya, Daumier and Ben Shahn. Side by side with looming figures symbolizing naked, illogical violence are Osborn's equally savage commentaries on the other nameless assassins responsible for the murders of Lieut. Colonel Lemuel Penn and the four children dynamited in an Alabama church...
...GEORGIA. The one case of raw violence was the nighttime murder of Negro Educator Lemuel Penn on a Georgia highway. Public parks and beaches, as well as many hotels and motels, were integrated. Six more school districts were integrated without incident. About 48,000 Negroes registered to vote...
Sims, 41, an Athens machinist, and Myers, 25, a yarn plucker at an Athens textile mill, were charged with the senseless shotgun slaying last July 11 of District of Columbia Educator Lemuel A. Penn, 49, who was driving home after a training stint as an Army Reserve lieutenant colonel at Fort Benning, Ga. A third defendant, Gas Station Attendant James S. Lackey, 28, had been granted a separate trial. All three are Ku Klux Klansmen...
During the two weeks that he was at Fort Benning, Ga., on Army reserve duty as a lieutenant colonel last month, Lemuel Penn, 49, Negro director of vocational high schools for the District of Columbia school system, never set foot off the base. Reason: he did not want to be responsible-even inadvertently-for causing a racial incident. On the night of July 10, his training completed, Penn set out for home with two other Washington Negroes. They planned to drive straight on through, stopping only for food and fuel...