"The Port Chicago 50 ... on racial stereotypes while raising no concerns about the white officers' performance. The punishment of Black sailors who refused to handle ammunition after the blast ...

so the battalions at Port Chicago consisted largely of Black enlisted personnel and White officers, according to a statement the Navy released Wednesday. The Black sailors worked under dangerous ...

The blast that happened at the Port Chicago naval weapons station in California killed 320 people and injured 400 more. Mostly Black personnel and white officers were assigned to the base at the ...

The White sailors were granted leave after the explosion, but Black sailors were ordered back to work loading ammunition at another port. Around 250 sailors initially refused, but after threats ...

White supervising officers at Port Chicago were given hardship leave, while the surviving Black sailors they commanded in segregated units that loaded ammunition were ordered back to work at the ...

At Port Chicago, they were not allowed to sleep in the main barracks and had to eat in the mess hall only after the white sailors were finished. While some officers showed the Black sailors ...

Surviving Black sailors had to pick up the human remains and clear the blast site while White officers were granted ... On Wednesday, the 80th anniversary of the Port Chicago disaster, Del Toro ...