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[[User:Evets70|Evets70]] ([[User talk:Evets70|talk]]) 18:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
[[User:Evets70|Evets70]] ([[User talk:Evets70|talk]]) 18:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

== Spicely murder and warehouse fire ==

I'm very glad to see this article, and believe that Booker T. Spicely deserves more historical attention (and a plaque at
Walltown Park, very close to where he died--and four blocks from my house). But there is one likely mistake in the current text, and in the Endangered Durham blog, that has been repeated
again and again--the connection of the murder to the warehouse fire.

One thing I am sure of--the warehouse fire took place the night of Spicely's death, not after the trial. See next day's edition of
Durham Herald, Raleigh News, Charlotte Observer. Moreover, the papers do not mention arson. The fire started in the basement of a
furniture warehouse, and newspapers say the cause was unknown. Cristina Greene seems to bring up the possibility of arson, but
really offers no proof. Even if it was arson, there was clearly no public riot involved. There was a "race riot" in Durham during the war, but it was in 1943 not 1944 and involved an altercation at a state liquor store involving a soldier, and had nothing to do with the Spicely murder.

I know several old timers in the warehouse business and will ask them about the fire, which was indeed destructive.

I haven't yet found anything about Black reaction to the verdict, but the newspapers do not mention any violent reaction.

Bob H.
Durham

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Evets70 (talk) 18:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Spicely murder and warehouse fire

I'm very glad to see this article, and believe that Booker T. Spicely deserves more historical attention (and a plaque at Walltown Park, very close to where he died--and four blocks from my house). But there is one likely mistake in the current text, and in the Endangered Durham blog, that has been repeated again and again--the connection of the murder to the warehouse fire.

One thing I am sure of--the warehouse fire took place the night of Spicely's death, not after the trial. See next day's edition of Durham Herald, Raleigh News, Charlotte Observer. Moreover, the papers do not mention arson. The fire started in the basement of a furniture warehouse, and newspapers say the cause was unknown. Cristina Greene seems to bring up the possibility of arson, but really offers no proof. Even if it was arson, there was clearly no public riot involved. There was a "race riot" in Durham during the war, but it was in 1943 not 1944 and involved an altercation at a state liquor store involving a soldier, and had nothing to do with the Spicely murder.

I know several old timers in the warehouse business and will ask them about the fire, which was indeed destructive.

I haven't yet found anything about Black reaction to the verdict, but the newspapers do not mention any violent reaction.

Bob H. Durham

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