60 years after being denied ceremony because of his race, Black man gets Eagle Scout medal

Sam Jones excelled in the Boy Scouts as a child, earning roughly 25 merit badges in various areas, including canoeing, first aid and citizenship.

It’s been 60 years since a Black teenager was denied an award because of his race, but this week, the teen who’s now a military retiree in Washington state has finally received the recognition and honor he so rightfully earned.

Sam Jones, 75, was 11 years old when he first saw images of a forest in a movie, an experience that forever changed his life. An urban boy raised by a single mother and growing up in the Rochester, New York, projects, he remembered hearing a voice tell him as he watched the film that if God exists, he lives in the woods.

“So, I started looking for God in the woods,” recalled Jones, according to today!

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