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 ......management of the Port Chicago National Memorial...backing of the National Park Service and key...Shaddox, from the National Park Service, Robert...complete history on Port Chicago and Eugene Sayles...administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a ...

REP. MILLER MOVES TO IMPROVE PORT CHICAGO MEMORIAL MANAGEMENT

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 20, 2007 ;     695 words ......incorporate Port Chicago as a full unit of our National Park System...administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...unit of the National Park System. In...1992, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...managed by the National Park Service to...

Ceremony to recall Port Chicago blast

Oakland Tribune;  July 19, 2007 ;     453 words ......demolition of Port Chicago -- are still...Saturday, the National Park Service will...incorporate Port Chicago as a full unit of the National Park System. The...lessons of Port Chicago, said Neal...Blackburn, of the National Park Service...

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

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  October 10, 2007 ;     676 words ......contributions of the Port Chicago sailors and...officials from the National Park Service, the...administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...unit of the National Park System. In...site of the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...one of the Port ...

Rep. Miller Introduces Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 26, 2007 ;     611 words ......administration of Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the National Park System." The bill...administration of Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the National Park System, and for...administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the ...

Bill would make WWII explosion site national park

Oakland Tribune;  July 21, 2007 ;     695 words ......could become part of the National Park System under a new bill...D-Martinez, on Friday, would make Port Chicago Naval Magazine in the eastern...professor and author of "The Port Chicago Mutiny." "Anyone who was...desegregating right there at Port Chicago." First the ...

!THEY CALLED IT MUTINY! THE PORT CHICAGO EXPLOSION

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

Sen. Boxer Introduces Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ......administration of Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the National Park System." The bill...administration of Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the National Park System, and for...administer the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...a unit of the ...

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, a haven...of a parade, dozens of former Port Chicago residents gathered Saturday at...Colchico was 6 years old when the Port Chicago explosion occurred at the neighboring...

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

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 3, 1997 ;     675 words ......Meeks, who was at the ill-fated former Port Chicago Naval Depot, about 45 miles southeast...U.S. Navy. Now, 53 years later, the Port Chicago disaster and aftermath remain largely...Allen, author of the 1989 book, The Port Chicago Mutiny, the only definitive account...

"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...

Congressman wants Port Chicago Naval Magazine to be made national...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 11, 2002 ;     357 words ......study of upgrading the Port Chicago Naval Magazine National...wins designation as a National Park, the site will become...superintendent of the memorial. National Park status would also...site each year. As a national park, the memorial will...

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 'family' to get together, remember: Group of former residents...

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA);  July 27, 2007 ;     619 words ......hometown is gone. The U.S. Navy bought Port Chicago in the 1960s, and its last residents...Colchico was the last person to move out of Port Chicago. He grew up there and stayed, even after...weeks after the 63rd anniversary of the Port Chicago explosion, which precipitated the ...

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...