Simpson Charles Younger

Biography

Simpson Charles Younger (May 17, 1850 – May 14, 1943) was a baseball player, a soldier in the Union Army during the American Civil War, Civil Rights campaigner, and poet. An African American, he was one of the youngest soldiers to serve in the Union Army and one of the last to remain living. His father was Charles Lee Younger (grandfather of the Younger brothers of the James–Younger Gang), and his mother, Elizabeth, was one of the people his father enslaved.

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