- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Samuel Younge, Jr.
- Creator:
- Summerlin, Donnie
- Date of Original:
- 2008-09-02
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Alabama--Tuskegee
Civil rights workers--Alabama--Tuskegee
African American college students--Alabama--Tuskegee
College students--Alabama--Tuskegee
Assassination--Alabama--Macon County
Shooting (Execution)--Alabama--Macon County
Homicide--Alabama--Macon County
African American civil rights workers--Death
African American civil rights workers--Violence against--Alabama--Macon County
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Protest movements - People:
- Younge, Sammy, 1944-1966
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Macon County, 32.38597, -85.69267
United States, Alabama, Macon County, Tuskegee, 32.42415, -85.69096 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Samuel Younge Jr. (1944-1966), the first black college student to be killed as a result of his involvement in the American civil rights movement. During the mid-1960s, Younge worked to desegregate public facilities and led voter-registration drives in Macon County and in other parts of the South. His violent death in 1966 for trying to use a whites-only restroom inspired civil rights workers in Alabama and throughout the nation to continue their work for racial equality and pushed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to publicly oppose American involvement in the Vietnam War.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1669
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