Dossier
Double Victory
Coverage of Double Victory in the Nexus archive.
- Long before the civil rights era, a WWII soldier was killed in Alexandria over a bus seat
In 1944, Army Pvt. Edward Green was shot and killed by bus driver Odell Lachney in Alexandria after sitting in the whites-only section of a bus. Lachney faced no charges, and the case, part of a broader pattern of violence against Black WWII servicemen, is now under renewed federal review.