Port Chicago Disaster and Black Sailors Mutiny Conviction
On July 17, 1944, two transport ships loading ammunition at Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California explode, killing 320 men instantly, including 202 African American enlisted men who comprised the entire loading workforce. Three weeks later, 258 surviving Black sailors refuse to return to loading …
U.S. Navy
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP
Port Chicago 50
Eleanor Roosevelt
racial-discrimination
military-justice
civil-rights
labor-exploitation
institutional-racism
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