Long before the civil rights era, a WWII soldier was killed in a dispute over a bus seat

Private Edward Green, a Black U.S. Army soldier, was shot and killed by bus driver Odell Lachney in Alexandria, Louisiana, on March 13, 1944, after sitting in the whites-only section of a bus. No charges were filed against Lachney, and the case, along with 15 others involving Black WWII servicemen killed in the South, has recently been reviewed by the federal Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board.