Henry Williams (September 15, 1918 – August 15, 1942) was an African American Private in the United States Army during World War II.

At the time of his death, Williams was 23 years old and stationed at Brookley Army Air Field, near Mobile.

[1] Local NAACP president John L. LeFlore began a bus boycott and called for prosecution of Chandler.

The Mobile Light and Railroad Company agreed to disarm bus drivers,[2] but Chandler only spent a few days in jail.

[3][4] The commanding officer at Brookley Field, Colonel Vincent Dixon, stated that the Army could not prosecute a civilian crime off base.