Support efforts to exonerate the Port Chicago 50 sailors
In Plain English
In 1944, 50 Black sailors were wrongfully convicted of mutiny after refusing to return to unsafe work following a deadly explosion at Port Chicago Naval Magazine that killed 320 people. The sailors had been denied standard leave and ordered back to handling explosives before investigators determined what caused the blast. Naval historians now recognize their work stoppage potentially saved lives and helped change Navy practices.
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