Mike Wiley On Telling the Story of Booker T. Spicely

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Mike Wiley On Telling the Story of Booker T. Spicely

Changing Same: The Cold-Blooded Murder of Booker T. Spicely | February 28, 7 p.m. | The Hayti Heritage Center, Durham In 1944, Book T. Spicely, a private in the U.S. Army on active duty, got off a bus at a stop on Durham’s Club Boulevard near what is now the North Carolina School of Science and Math. The bus driver, Herman Lee Council, followed him off the bus and shot him twice in the chest; after being refused treatment at the segregated Watts…