On a Saturday evening in July 1944, Private Booker T. Spicely boarded a segregated bus from Durham, North Carolina back to his military base, Camp Butner. When some white soldiers got on, the bus driver shouted at Spicely to move to the last row. "I thought I was fighting this war for democracy," Spicely protested. "We're both wearing the same uniform." Private Spicely never made it back to base that night.