Sammy Younge, JR.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement - James Forman - Paperback

Even as a child, Sammy Younge, Jr. saw the struggle for equal rights as a personal challenge. A political science student at prestigious Tuskegee Institute, he became a leader in the student Civil Rights Movement. Demonstrations were touched off on January 4, 1966 when it became known that Sammy, age 21, had been shot and killed by a gas station attendant. James Forman knew Sammy personally, and tells the young martyr's story through interviews with family and friends.Forman, James is the author of 'Sammy Younge, JR.: The First Black College Student to Die in the Black Liberation Movement - James Forman - Paperback' with ISBN 9780940880139 and ISBN 094088013X.