Black WWII Soldiers Asked a White Woman for Doughnuts. They Were Shot.

Rose Zoltek-Jick, the associate director of the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), worked on a 1941 case–a white military police officer shot a Black soldier after he talked loudly on a bus– that was mentioned in this Washington Post article about a similar case on two black soldiers: Allen Leftridge and Frank Glenn.