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</div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yahoo_quoted_7051372691" class="ydpf0b91d42yahoo_quoted"><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010"><div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyahoo_quoted_7634799192" class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyahoo_quoted"><div style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550"><div class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpbf987c12yahoo-style-wrap"><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpbf987c12yiv1648037260"><div dir="ltr"><div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><div dir="ltr"><div class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260WordSection1"><blockquote style="margin: 5pt 0px; padding: 8px;"><div><div dir="" data-setdir="true"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Dear neighbors,</font></span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42);"><br></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><font style="color:rgb(38, 40, 42);">Below is FYI. </font><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">W</font><font style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">e submitted our application for the state historic marker, earlier this month. Our package included dozens of messages of support from the community. Thank you!</font></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">~John</font></span></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><br></font></div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">It’s time for NC to honor a Black soldier murdered for resisting segregation </font></span></b></div><div><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">By Irving Joyner & Timothy B. Tyson</font></span></b></div><div><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3"><b><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);">Herald-Sun (12 Oct 2022)</span></b><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"> </span></font></div></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyahoo_quoted_6391507560"><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104"><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">As Veterans Day approaches, we ponder the sacrifice of Black soldiers who gave their lives defending democracy not only abroad, but here at home. One such fallen hero was Booker T. Spicely, killed because he dared protest racial segregation in North Carolina during WWII. </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">In his memory, we have requested a state historic marker in Durham to commemorate Private Spicely. We encourage all citizens to support this act of public remembrance. </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Spicely was a Black soldier stationed at Camp Butner, just north of Durham. On July 8, 1944, Spicely, unarmed and in uniform, stepped onto a bus operated by Duke Power and driven by Herman Council. When two white soldiers boarded, Council ordered Spicely to the rear of the bus.</font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Spicely asked why he had to move, since he had paid his fare. Wasn’t he “just as good to stop a bullet as these white soldiers?” Spicely asked. “I thought I was fighting this war for democracy?”</font></span></p><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">The white soldiers agreed and moved to the colored section themselves. Spicely went back to sit with them and continue their conversation.</font></span></p><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">When the bus came to his stop, Spicely addressed the driver: “If I have said anything that offended you, I am sorry,” and left the bus at the rear. Council pulled out a .38-caliber pistol, lurched down the front steps, ran up to Spicely, and shot him twice in the chest. Military police rushed Spicely to nearby Watts Hospital, where doctors refused to treat him because he was Black. When Spicely reached Duke Hospital, doctors there pronounced him dead on arrival. </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Council was prosecuted but never punished. Lawyers from Duke Power, which operated Durham’s bus system at the time, argued to the all-white jury that Council had been enforcing state law and had reasonably feared for his life. Despite several witnesses to the contrary, the jurors found Council not guilty in less than 30 minutes. </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">We are members of a team of local residents who’ve applied for a state historic marker to commemorate the life and martyrdom of Spicely. His story is one that should be known. Acknowledging our history of racial violence and political repression is a necessary part of building a free and equal society. </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Members of Spicely’s family support the placement of a historic marker in Durham at the site of his unjust killing. Family members describe how they “often wonder with unfulfillable longing what Booker’s contribution to society at large would have been.” </font></span></p></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">We should remember Spicely not merely as a victim of state-sanctioned violence, but as a brave protester in what Black newspapers and other activists called “the Double V campaign.” This campaign urged all Americans to “Defeat Mussolini and Hitler by Enforcing the Constitution and Abolishing Jim Crow.” Black soldiers nationwide called out the hypocrisy of fighting for democracy with a Jim Crow army and an apartheid regime in a large section of the country. Spicely was one of many soldiers who died fighting the war at home.</font></span></p><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Spicely resisted segregated seating on a city bus only 11 years before Rosa Parks took a similar stand, but he paid the ultimate penalty. Remembering him will not merely honor one soldier who gave his life in the battle for democracy. It honors the volunteer army of ordinary citizens who, through myriad acts of courage, push forward the long, slow process of opening the full bounty of American citizenship to all. </font></span></div><div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;"><br></font></span></div></div><div id="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260ydp70b1cbfcyiv9550334104AppleMailSignature"><p class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550ydpcf22b573yiv1648037260MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42);"><font face="Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" size="3" style="background-color: inherit;">Irving Joyner is a professor at North Carolina Central University School of Law. Timothy B. Tyson is senior research scholar at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.</font></span></i></b></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-size: 16px; font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif;"><img alt="image0.jpeg" src="cid:szRbYA1fakrvbUKpEJK6" style="width:50%;max-width:400px;" class="ydpf0b91d42yiv1385397010ydp63797d8fyiv7844858550"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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