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Fifty of these men—called the "Port Chicago 50"—were convicted of mutiny and sentenced to 15 years of prison and hard labor, as well as a dishonorable discharge. Forty-seven of the 50 were released in January 1946; the remaining three served additional months in prison.
After a military trial that documented the inequities in the treatment of the Black sailors, the Port Chicago 50 were all convicted and given 15 year prison sentences. Appeals by the NAACP and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt were unsuccessful.
The Navy later convicted all 50 Sailors (who came to be called the “Port Chicago 50”) of mutiny at a mass general court-martial.
Fifty African American sailors, who became known as the Port Chicago 50, refused to return to the unsafe work, citing the lack of proper safety measures and training. Their refusal was a bold act of defiance against the unjust conditions they had been subjected to.
In 1944, the US Navy charged 50 Black sailors with mutiny for refusing to load munitions following an explosion at Port Chicago, near Concord, which killed 320 people, mostly Black enlisted men. The Port Chicago 50 were wrongly convicted and only recently exonerated.
Ultimately, 50 men—later known as the “Port Chicago 50”—stood their ground. The 208 men who returned to duty received summary courts-martial for refusal to obey orders and were sentenced to...
On July 17, 2024, The Honorable Carlos Del Toro, 78 th Secretary of the Navy, announced the exoneration of the Port Chicago 50. These men were charged and convicted of mutiny after refusing to return to work when conditions that led to the death of 320 people and the injury of hundreds more were never properly addressed.
On August 9, 1944, 258 African American sailors refused to work, leading to 50 being charged with mutiny. Defended by Thurgood Marshall, who argued that the sailors were protesting against racial discrimination and unsafe conditions, this trial highlighted systemic racism in the military.
This week, the Navy officially exonerated the Port Chicago 50. All of the men have since died. But almost 30 years ago, independent producer Dan Collison spoke to five of them for a...
The Port Chicago 50, a group of Black sailors charged and convicted in the largest U.S. Navy mutiny in history, were exonerated by the U.S. Navy on Wednesday, which called the case...