Sammy Younge was fatally shot by a white gas station attendant for using a “Whites only” restroom in 1966
Samuel (“Sammy”) Leamon Younge Jr. was 21-years-old when he was fatally shot on January 3, 1966 when he tired to use a whites-only restroom at a gas station in Macon County, Alabama. Younge was a navy veteran studying political science at Tuskegee Institute. The civil rights activist was born on November 17, 1944 in Tuskegee, […]