If Port Chicago were still here, it would be 100 years old

Oakland Tribune;  July 27, 2008 ;     479 words ...BAY POINT -- The town of Port Chicago was born 100 years ago...federal government razed the town of 3,500, snuffing it...parade, dozens of former Port Chicago residents gathered Saturday...was 6 years old when the Port Chicago explosion occurred at the neighboring ...

REP. MILLER'S PORT CHICAGO BILL WINS BACKING OF NATIONAL PARK SERVICE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......s bill to improve management of the Port Chicago National Memorial in Concord, CA won...hearing held today on the measure. The Port Chicago National Memorial is a historic site...National Park Service, the Friends of Port Chicago, the National Parks Conservation Association...

REP. MILLER MOVES TO IMPROVE PORT CHICAGO MEMORIAL MANAGEMENT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 20, 2007 ;     695 words ......anniversary of the deadly explosion at Port Chicago, Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez) has introduced new legislation to enhance the Port Chicago National Memorial in the East Bay of...the site for future generations. The "Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Enhancement...

A silent explosion: new legislation could put a forgotten naval site on...

National Parks;  January 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......location was California's Port Chicago Naval Magazine near the...legislation that would make Port Chicago Naval Magazine National...from growing up in the town next door, Miller says...time of the explosion, Port Chicago was front-page news around...historian, and author of ...

REP. MILLER'S PORT CHICAGO BILL IS APPROVED BY COMMITTEE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 10, 2007 ;     676 words ......s bill to improve management of the Port Chicago National Memorial in Concord, CA today...committee, with no objection. "The events of Port Chicago are very important to our nation's military...make sure that the contributions of the Port Chicago sailors and their families will not...

!THEY CALLED IT MUTINY! THE PORT CHICAGO EXPLOSION

Sea Classics;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......ammunition ship explosion at Port Chicago, California, refused to go back...with the demand for ammunition. Port Chicago, California, located 35-mi north...facilities. Construction at Port Chicago began in 1942. By 1944, expansion...assigned to the dangerous work at Port ...

BLAST SURVIVORS STILL SEEKING VINDICATION BLACK SAILORS WERE CONVICTED OF...

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 3, 1997 ;     675 words ......two Navy ships, leveled a town and killed 320 men, 202 of...was at the ill-fated former Port Chicago Naval Depot, about 45 miles...Now, 53 years later, the Port Chicago disaster and aftermath remain...author of the 1989 book, The Port Chicago Mutiny, the only definitive...

Ceremony to recall Port Chicago blast

Oakland Tribune;  July 19, 2007 ;     453 words ......ships blew up at the docks of Port Chicago Naval Magazine 63 years ago today...explosion site in the now-nonexistent town of Port Chicago. She remembers running downstairs...explosion, Monroe remembers the town working together to rebuild broken...

"The Port Chicago Mutiny"

Chicago Citizen;  December 17, 1998 ;     296 words ...Chicago Citizen 12-17-1998 "The Port Chicago Mutiny" Michael Jai White ("Spawn...David Ramsey ("Con Air") star in "The Port Chicago Mutiny," a drama based on actual events...17, 1944, a Victory ship anchored at Port Chicago Munitions Base near San Francisco exploded...

NAACP Seeks Port Chicago Pardons

AP Online;  July 14, 1999 ;     425 words ......AP Online 07-14-1999 NAACP Seeks Port Chicago Pardons NEW YORK (AP) -- The NAACP...sailors convicted in the so-called Port Chicago trial during World War II. The trial centered on the Port Chicago Naval Ammunition base near San Francisco...

Port Chicago tragedy remains relevant today

Oakland Tribune;  July 17, 2004 ;     636 words ......munitions being loaded onto ships at Port Chicago exploded, 320 men were killed, 202 of...The death toll of African Americans at Port Chicago represented 15 percent of African-American...the research for his 1989 book, "The Port Chicago Mutiny," when most people had never...

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The Port Chicago mutiny: after a deadly blast, 50 black sailors refused to...

New York Times Upfront;  January 3, 2000 ;     556 words ......After an explosion killed 320 people in Port Chicago, California, he and 49 other black sailors...the dirtiest, most thankless jobs. At Port Chicago, a U.S. Navy ammunition facility just...when they pointed out that no one at Port Chicago had been trained to handle explosives...

BHERC to Host 60th Commemoration of the Port Chicago Blast

Los Angeles Sentinel;  July 21, 2004 ;     594 words ......ammunition without proper training at port Chicago Naval Weapon Station. On July...Hiroshima, nearly leveled the Port Chicago area. Two military cargo ships...with ammunition and the entire Port Chicago waterfront (located in the East...

Port Chicago blast activist, 83, dies

Oakland Tribune;  June 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......his post as a munitions loader at the Port Chicago naval base near Concord, when the sky...about it," he said of the tragedy at Port Chicago. "It's something that's been in the...great-grandchildren. (Optional add end) Port Chicago, on the south side of Suisun Bay, about...