— The Tuskegee Civil Rights and Historic Trail —
Samuel "Sammy" Leamon Younge, Jr. (1944-1966), a civil rights and voting rights activist, was the first African American university student killed during the civil rights movement. A Tuskegee native, Younge was attending Tuskegee University when Standard Oil gas station attendant Marvin Segrest shot him as he was attempting to use a whites-only bathroom. He was an active member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and a leader of the Tuskegee Institute Advancement League (TIAL). He participated in the Selma-to-Montgomery Marches, and aided SNCC in voter registration drives in Mississippi in 1965. Along with 40 other civil rights martyrs slain between 1954 and 1968, he is honored on the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. SNCC subsequently joined the anti-war opposition stating: " The murder of Samuel (Younge) in Tuskegee, Alabama, is no different than the murder of peasants in Vietnam, for both (Younge) and the Vietnamese sought, and are seeking, to secure the rights guaranteed them by law."| HM Number | HM2L0V |
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| Tags | |
| Year Placed | 2019 |
| Placed By | City Of Tuskegee, Tuskegee University, Jewish American Society for Historic Preservation |
| Marker Condition | No reports yet |
| Date Added | Friday, September 20th, 2019 at 5:02pm PDT -07:00 |
| UTM (WGS84 Datum) | 16S E 623233 N 3588247 |
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| Decimal Degrees | 32.42451667, -85.68930000 |
| Degrees and Decimal Minutes | N 32° 25.471', W 85° 41.358' |
| Degrees, Minutes and Seconds | 32° 25' 28.26" N, 85° 41' 21.48" W |
| Driving Directions | Google Maps |
| Which side of the road? | Marker is on the right when traveling West |
| Closest Postal Address | At or near , , |
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