On this day, 3 January 1966, military veteran and civil rights activist Sammy Younge, Jr was murdered in Alabama. Younge, who only had one kidney, was killed by a gas station attendant in Macon County for trying to use the “whites-only” restroom. https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1313025088882638/?type=3