Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers With Their Attorneys, September 1964

Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers (second and third from left) are shown clasping hands with their attorneys upon the news of their acquittal in a murder trial. Caption on photo reads: (AX2) DANIELSVILLE, Ga., Sept. 5 -- JURY FREES TWO IN NIGHT RIDER SLAYING -- Joseph Sims and Cecil Myers (in shirt sleeves) clasp hands with their attorneys after the two men were acquitted in the killing of a Negro educator, Lemuel Penn, of Washington, D.C., who was shot down on a north Georgia highway July 11. Left to right are James Hudson, Sims, Myers, John Dorsey and Harold Boggs.The Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library acknowledges the generous support of the Joseph & Evelyn Lowery Institute for Justice and Human Rights, the Joseph Echols Lowery Irrevocable Trust, and other donors in supporting the processing and digitization of Morehouse College's Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection