Remembering Port Chicago & Cyril O. Sheppard
DeKalb Public Library 309 Oak St, DeKalb, IL, United StatesFollowing two massive explosions in 1944 in Port Chicago, California, that killed 320 American sailors and injured 390 more, the US Navy branded 50 young Black sailors as mutineers for their refusal to return to the unsafe working conditions that caused the explosions. These 50 Black sailors would be known as The Port Chicago 50. […]