Smoke Still Rises From WWII Blast

The Washington Post;  March 28, 1999 ;     700+ words ......assumed that Port Chicago was in Illinois...vy's treatment of black sailors at that time...Ramsey portray black sailors entering the...ships at the Port Chicago Munitions Base...ship anchored at Port Chicago exploded. The...small town of Port ...

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

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 3, 1997 ;     675 words ......202 of whom were black. The blast, at 10...afterward, surviving black sailors were assigned the...the ill-fated former Port Chicago Naval Depot, about...the explosion, the black sailors were forced to keep...53 years later, the Port Chicago disaster and ...

Port Chicago blast activist, 83, dies

Oakland Tribune;  June 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......loader at the Port Chicago naval base near...including 202 black sailors. It was the deadliest...the trauma. The black sailors were sent back...the tragedy at Port Chicago. "It's something...miles away. When Port Chicago blew apart, Meeks...the trauma. The ...

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

New York Times Upfront;  January 3, 2000 ;     556 words ......thankless jobs. At Port Chicago, a U.S. Navy ammunition...of San Francisco, black sailors were given the job...out that no one at Port Chicago had been trained to...were tied up at the Port Chicago dock. One was full...killed, 202 of them black sailors. ...

LAND AND MEMORIAL BILLS:ROBERT L. ALLEN, PH.D.

Congressional Testimony;  September 27, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Introduction The Port Chicago explosion was...17, 1944, the Port Chicago Naval Magazine...Although the black sailors were imprisoned...The events at Port Chicago are of national...The Friends of Port Chicago National Memorial...and legacy of Port ...

Navy's 1940s Chicago Port 'Mutiny' Reeks Of Tailhook

Philadelphia Tribune, The;  January 14, 1994 ;     411 words ......martial of 258 Black sailors who refused...known as the "Port Chicago Mutiny...sailors at Port Chicago were given 30 days off but Black sailors, including...justice for the Black sailors victimized in the misnamed Port Chicago Mutiny. ...

Sailors who refused to load ships want 'mutiny' label erased. (Originated...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 15, 1994 ;     700+ words ......segregated quarters at the Port Chicago Naval base in California...history, when 258 black sailors, including George...320 men killed at Port Chicago, 202 were black sailors who loaded ammunition...hundreds wounded were black sailors who were ...

President Clinton pardons Freddie Meeks

Chicago Defender;  December 29, 1999 ;     700+ words ......incidents surrounding the Port Chicago disaster and the subsequent...wllo were court martialed. Port Chicago's black sailors were segregated in barracks...legislation in 1992 creating the Port Chicago National Memorial at the...

55 YEARS LATER, A SAILOR IS PARDONED PROTEST OF DOCK BLAST BECAME CIVIL...

The Boston Globe;  December 24, 1999 ;     700+ words ......survivors of the Port Chicago 50, a group of black sailors whose convictions...the docks at Port Chicago north of San...men killed were black sailors who had been...from prison. The Port Chicago story was told...

Bill would make explosion site a park

Oakland Tribune;  July 21, 2007 ;     596 words ......more than 200 of them black sailors -- and sparked enough...D-Martinez, would make Port Chicago Naval Magazine in the...202 men -- were black sailors who loaded heavy bombs...desegregating right there at Port Chicago." First the Navy introduced...

Final outcome? Fifty years after the Port Chicago mutiny. (includes...

American Visions;  April 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......the evening of July 17, 1944, the Port Chicago naval ammunition base located on...were destroyed. At the town of Port Chicago, located a mile away, falling debris...men killed at the base, 202 were black ammunition loaders. Of the 390...Navy man handling ammunition at Port ...

BHERC to Host 60th Commemoration of the Port Chicago Blast

Los Angeles Sentinel;  July 21, 2004 ;     594 words ......proper training at port Chicago Naval Weapon Station...nearly leveled the Port Chicago area. Two military...ammunition and the entire Port Chicago waterfront (located...seamen, the surviving black sailors were ordered to return...approved by Congress. Port ...

Bill would make WWII explosion site national park

Oakland Tribune;  July 21, 2007 ;     695 words ......more than 200 of them black sailors -- and sparked enough...Friday, would make Port Chicago Naval Magazine in the...202 men -- were black sailors who loaded heavy bombs...desegregating right there at Port Chicago." First the Navy introduced...

`MUTINY' ANOTHER PAGE OF ESSENTIAL HISTORY FOR MORGAN...

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  March 27, 1999 ;     546 words ......with munitions exploded at Port Chicago east of San Francisco, killing 320 men, most of them black sailors. It was the worst home-front...pardoned them. The survivors of Port Chicago still hope for an act of...had been unaware of the Port Chicago disaster. ``I knew ...

Good news is, America can admit errors

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  January 8, 2000 ;     662 words ......were answered. On this date at Port Chicago Naval Magazine near San Francisco...Two-thirds of those killed were black men. They were assigned to load...the ships. The next day, the black seamen were told to go back and...duties. Some of the frightened black seamen asked to be ...