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

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

This is the first of a two-part series.ALEXANDRIA, La. --Dont kill me, Ill get off, exclaimed Private Edward Green, a U.S. Army soldier, to bus driver Odell Lachney on March 13, 1944.It was the third public bus that Green, who had lived in New York City, tried to take that evening.He and a fellow soldier had sat down in the whites-only section in the front of the first bus, only to have that driver threaten Green with a club and demand they get …