Booker T. Spicely 1909-1944

Booker T. Spicely 1909-1944 is a North Carolina historical marker in Durham, Durham County, dedicated 2023.

W. Club Boulevard and Berkeley St., Durham · location approximate

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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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Historical maps covering this location

1776 · Map Of North And South Carolina With Their Indian Frontiers. (Northern Section) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1890 · Map of the town of Durham, North Carolina : showing the property of the Durham… (Historical map archives, georeferenced via Allmaps)
1927 · N. & S. Carolina. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1950 · Sanborn Fire Insurance Map — Durham, N.C. (1950) (OldInsuranceMaps.net — Sanborn Map Collection)
am004336 (American Geographical Society Library, UW-Milwaukee)

N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering the location of Booker T. Spicely 1909-1944, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — N. & S. Carolina, 1927, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours and the location is approximate.

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This marker is part of the North Carolina Highway Historical Marker Program, run by the N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources jointly with the N.C. Department of Transportation. Marker texts and locations are the program's own, as the Department publishes them.

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