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Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan

Murder at Broad River Bridge: The Slaying of Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan

Shipp, Bill
Romano, Renee C.

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $24.95

ISBN10: 082035161X
ISBN13: 9780820351612
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: Sep 15 2017
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act. Longtime Atlanta Constitution reporter Bill Shipp gives us, with shattering power, the true story of how a good, innocent, uninvolved man was killed during the Civil Rights turbulence of the mid-1960s. Penn was a decorated veteran of World War II, a United States Army Reserve officer, and an African American, killed by racist, white vigilantes as he was driving home to Washington, D.C. from Fort Benning, Georgia.

Shipp recounts the details of the blind and lawless force that took Penn's life and the sorry mask of protective patriotism it hid behind. To read Murder at Broad River Bridge is to know with deep shock that it could be dated today, tonight, tomorrow. It is a vastly moving documentary drama.

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