Sammy Younge Jr., American civil rights activist (died 1966)

Sammy Younge Jr.

American activist (1944–1966)

Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate a "whites only" restroom. Younge was an enlisted service member in the United States Navy, where he served for two years before being medically discharged. Younge…