Zirl A. Palmer

Zirl A. Palmer

American businessman and civil rights activist (1920–1982)

📍 Lexington, Kentucky USA

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Zirl Augustus Palmer was an African-American businessman and activist in Lexington, Kentucky. He opened Palmer's Pharmacy in 1952 in an old building at Fifth and Race Street. He was involved in the city's desegregation and first Black board member of the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees. He and his family were the target of a Ku Klux Klan bombing in 1968.

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