Booker T. Spicely 1909-1944
ID: NC1944070801
Name(s) of People Lynched: Booker T. Spicely
Number of People Lynched: 1
Race: Black
Gender: Male
Lynching Date(s): 1944-07-08
Year Marker Erected: 2023
Erected by: North Carolina Office of Archives and History
City: Durham
County: Durham
State: North Carolina
Marker Text: Black U.S. Army soldier shot nearby in 1944 for resisting Jim Crow laws on a bus. Aftermath of killing helped revitalize North Carolina’s NAACP.
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