The Port Chicago 50 mutinied after a massive explosion ripped through the naval munitions base in 1944. Officers primarily used African-American servicemen to do the dangerous job of restocking ships with ordnance. They had no training in how to safely handle the explosives. A major disaster took the lives of 320 people, mostly Black servicemen. The men were ordered back to work after the cleanup, but hundreds refused. Ultimately, 50 held out and received harsh punishments. They were sentenced t
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Port Chicago 50: When Black Courage Was Branded as Mutiny Three hundred and twenty men were killed in seconds. Two-thirds of them were black. Then the Navy ordered the survivors back to load more bombs. Fifty of them refused. For that refusal, they were sentenced to fifteen years in prison for mutiny. This is the story of how American courage was punished as treason. On July 17, 1944, at approximately 10.18 in the evening, according to official Navy records, two massive explosions erupted at Por
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