Samuel Leamon 'Sammy' Younge Jr., a 21-year-old African-American man, was a Navy veteran and a dedicated civil rights activist studying political science at the Tuskegee Institute. On the evening of January 3, 1966, after a day spent registering Black voters in Macon County, Alabama, Younge stopped at a Standard Oil gas station in his hometown of Tuskegee. What began as a simple request to use the restroom escalated into a fatal confrontation that would underscore the deep-seated racial tensions
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