Port Chicago Mutiny
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Modern Times Bookstore page.
"Allen, Robert L. The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in
U.S. Naval History . New York, 1989. $9.95 -- Allen's history documents the Port Chicago
munitions explosion on July 17, 1944, possibly the worst homefront disaster of World War II,
and the subsequent mutiny trial of fifty black sailors who refused to continue to load
ammunition under the same conditions. More than 250 sailors staged a work stoppage after
the blast vaporized the waterfront and levelled the town of Port Chicago, California. Allen
conducted oral histories of the surviving sailors, and combines them with the court
proceedings, NAACP Legal Defense Fund records, and newspaper and magazine accounts
from the period."
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