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    Samuel Leamon Younge Jr. (November 17, 1944 – January 3, 1966) was a civil rights and voting rights activist who was murdered for trying to desegregate...
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    Harry Belafonte (born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized...
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  • in Pennsylvania Sammy Younge Jr. (1944–1966), American civil rights activist, murdered This page lists people with the surname Younge. If an internal...
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  • Mediterranean between Greece and Cyprus on 12 October 1965, remains unsolved. Sammy Younge Jr. (21) was shot and killed 3 January 1966 in Tuskegee, Alabama, by a...
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    A-APRP organized the All African Women's Revolutionary Union and the Sammy Younge Jr. Brigade (named after the first black college student to die during...
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  • within the movement and his evolving political philosophy including Sammy Younge Jr.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement...
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    I Have a Dream (category Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.)
    August 26, 2013, UK's BBC Radio 4 broadcast "God's Trombone", in which Gary Younge looked behind the scenes of the speech and explored "what made it both timely...
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  • Tribune. Retrieved January 30, 2018. Till-Mobley & Benson 2003, pp. 59–60. Younge, Gary (June 5, 2005). "Justice at last?". The Guardian. Till-Mobley & Benson...
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    James Leonard Farmer Jr. (January 12, 1920 – July 9, 1999) was an American civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for...
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    Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (November 29, 1908 – April 4, 1972) was an American Baptist pastor and politician who represented the Harlem neighborhood of New...
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    Martin Luther King Jr., an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on...
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    Andrew Jackson Young Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is an American politician, diplomat, and activist. Beginning his career as a pastor, Young was an early...
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    Williams Kale Williams Robert F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement...
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    Williams Kale Williams Robert F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement...
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    Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. (August 15, 1935 – March 1, 2021) was an American business executive and civil rights attorney who worked for various civil rights...
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  • between June and July 1964 was led by Robert Hayling, Martin Luther King Jr., Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Hosea Williams, C. T. Vivian and Fred Shuttlesworth...
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    Towards Justice. Melanie Kroupa Books. ISBN 978-1429948210.[page needed] Younge, Gary (December 16, 2000). "She would not be moved". The Guardian. London...
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    Archived from the original on January 16, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2020. Younge, Gary (September 2–9, 2013). "The Misremembering of 'I Have a Dream'". The...
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    Clarence Triggs Virgil Lamar Ware Cynthia Wesley Ben Chester White Sammy Younge Jr. "The Forgotten" are 74 people who are identified in a display at the...
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    Leadership Conference were civil rights lawyer Joseph L. Rauh Jr. and Clarence Mitchell Jr. of the NAACP. After the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom...
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    ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage. Taylor & Francis. p. 313. ISBN 0-8153-0913-9. Younge, Gary (August 21, 2003). "I have a dream". The Guardian. Archived from the...
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    activists Sammy Younge Jr. and Wendell Paris. Younge and Paris grew to become profound activists and organizers under Hamer's tutelage. Younge was murdered...
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    those who fought to Perpetuate Human Slavery'". On January 3, 1966, Sammy Younge Jr. was murdered in Tuskegee, Alabama, two years after the passage of...
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    the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave the "I Have a Dream" speech. That summer, Sanders was fined $25 (equivalent...
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    Williams Kale Williams Robert F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement...
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    Marion Shepilov Barry (born Marion Barry Jr.; March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as mayor of the District of Columbia...
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    Stauffer; Zoe Trodd; Celeste-Marie Bernier; Henry Louis Gates Jr.; Kenneth B. Morris Jr. (2015). Picturing Frederick Douglass: An Illustrated Biography...
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    Selma to Montgomery marches (category Martin Luther King Jr.)
    safely proceed, Tuskegee Institute students, led by Gwen Patton and Sammy Younge Jr., decided to open a "Second Front" by marching to the Alabama State...
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    Williams Kale Williams Robert F. Williams Andrew Young Whitney Young Sammy Younge Jr. Bob Zellner James Zwerg By region Omaha, Nebraska South Carolina Movement...
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    North Farish Street in Jackson. Allen Johnson, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., and other civil rights leaders led the procession. The Mississippi police...
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