Samuel Leamon "Sammy" Younge Jr., a 21-year-old student from Tuskegee, Alabama, was tragically murdered on January 3, 1966, in what would become one of the most significant and shocking acts of racial violence during the Civil Rights Movement. Younge, an African American, was a student at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), and an active participant in the civil rights struggle. He was gunned down by a white gas station attendant, Grover Floyd Jr., after a confrontation at the gas stat
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