The Hayti Heritage Center is honoring the life and legacy of a World War II soldier who was shot and killed in Durham 81 years ago.
Booker T. Spicely was a Black Army private based at Camp Butner during the war.
Spicely was in uniform and visiting friends in Durham in July 1944 when a White bus driver followed him off the bus and shot and killed him for refusing to give up his seat to a White passenger…