‘Hands up! Don’t shoot': The forgotten Memphis police killing of Black teenager Larry Payne
Carolyn Payne, Larry Payne’s younger sister and longtime family spokesperson, reacts while touring the National Civil Rights Museum. Larry Payne was shot and killed as a teenager by police amid the unrest that followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s final march down Beale Street 54 years ago March 28. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian)
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A half century later, family still fights for recognition to soften “a pain that will never go away.''
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The Institute for Public Service Reporting is based at the University of Memphis and supported financially by U of M, private grants and donations made through the University Foundation. Its work is published by The Daily Memphian through a paid-use agreement.
Laura Faith Kebede
Laura Faith Kebede is a distinguished journalist in residence at the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis. She leads the Institute’s Civil Wrongs project to write about historical cases of racial terror as a corps member for Report for America. You can follow her on Twitter @kebedefaith.
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