Lemuel Penn joined the Army Reserve from Howard University. He served in World War II in New Guinea and the Philippines, earning a Bronze Star. Penn, father of three, was 48 at the time of his murder by Klansmen. Penn along with two other black Reserve officers was driving home to Washington, D.C., from Fort […]

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