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The Port Chicago Mutiny:

The Story Of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial In U.S. Naval History
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Heyday, 1989 - History - 198 pages
Cultural Writing. History. During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to load ammunition onto ships bound for the South Pacific under the watch of their white officers-an incredibly dangerous and physically challenging task. On July 17, 1944, an explosion rocked the base, killing 320 men-202 of whom were black ammunition loaders. In the ensuing weeks, white officers were given leave time and commended for heroic efforts, whereas 328 of the surviving black enlistees were sent to load ammunition on another ship. When they refused, fifty men were singled out and charged-and convicted-of mutiny. It was the largest mutiny trial in U.S. naval history. First published in 1989, THE PORT CHICAGO MUTINY is a thorough and riveting work of civil rights literature, and with a new preface and epilogue by the author emphasize the event's relevance today. More than a mutiny trial, the incident raises questions about the powers of the military, about the prosecution of civil disobedience, and about the rights of the individual.
  

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User Review  - Sally - Goodreads

This is one of the few published works on the events that took place at Port Chicago, CA in 1944. If you don't know what happened at Port Chicago, I suggest looking it up because I hadn't heard of it ... Read full review

Review: The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in US Naval History

User Review  - Taylor Kriha - Goodreads

This book talks about racial discrimination in the military. This book focuses on where it took place in 1944 in California. After over 300 people were killed, they finally took a stand for what they thought was fair Read full review

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Contents

Chapter I A Day at Port Chicago
1
Chapter 2 The DayJuly 17 1944
21
Chapter 4 The Base and the Work
37
Chapter 5 The Explosion and After
56
Chapter 6The Work Stoppage
75
Prosecution
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Defense
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Chapter 9 Closing Arguments and Verdict
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Chapter 11Conclusion
138
APPENDICES
153
Appendix III A Note on Sources
177
Index
193
Copyright

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Monica Moorehead, The Port Chicago Mutiny
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Interview with Sandra Evers-Manly
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Robert L. Allen's The Port Chicago Mutiny, about the explosion
New books: Robert L. Allen's The Port Chicago Mutiny, about the explosion of a Jim Crow naval munitions base on San Francisco Bay during World War I.
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Robert L. Allen and The Port Chicago Mutiny - The Black Scholar
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Friends of Port Chicago
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American Visions: Final outcome? Fifty years after the Port ...
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Port Chicago Disaster - Credits
Robert L. Allen, "The Port Chicago Mutiny" Reprint edition (April 1993) ... Monica Moorehead, "The Port Chicago Mutiny", Workers World February 23,1995 ...
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Port Chicago disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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About the author (1989)

Robert L. Allen is the author of "The Port Chicago Mutiny (Amistad 1993) and co-editor of Brotherman (35,000 hc net), which won the American Book Award. Allen is a professor of African American and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and is an editor of The Black Scholar. He lives in San Francisco, CA.

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TitleThe Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story Of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial In U.S. Naval History
AuthorRobert L. Allen
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherHeyday, 1989
ISBN1597140287, 9781597140287
Length198 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Military / Naval
History / Military / World War II
History / United States / 20th Century
History / United States / General
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
  
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