US Navy on Wednesday exonerated 256 black sailors who were convicted of mutiny and disobeying orders following the naval base explosion at Port Chicago, California around 80 years ago. The explosion ...

She said, 'Mutiny,'" Cherry said ... in northern California became a critical supply point. At the time, the Navy was still segregated. Naval historian Dr. Regina Akers says Black sailors got ...

The generational impact of slavery led to one of the United States’ most tragic incidents: the largest mutiny in U.S. Naval ... it was a Navy base known as Port Chicago Naval Magazine, serving ...

This week, the Navy officially exonerated the Port ... of the same thing happening again. MEEKS: He told us that you could be charged with mutiny if you don't go back to work.

The 50 convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny received sentences ranging ... “I figured the secretary of the Navy wasn’t going to give us bad news,” McDaniel said. Speaking to Dr. Allen ...

The school was established following the discovery of a planned mutiny on the Atlantic Ocean aboard U.S. Navy brig Somers. Three sailors were executed on the high seas — including the 19-year ...

The U.S. brig-of-war Somers got underway from New York in September 1842, and returned months later after the captain averted a mutiny. (Courtesy of Richard Snow) When Navy Cmdr. Alexander Slidell ...

This number includes the Port Chicago 50 who were tried on mutiny charges ... please reach out to: [email protected].

Allen, who definitively told the story of 50 Black sailors who were convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny for refusing ... but they were dangerous to all of us, including me, because he was ...

Led by director William Friedkin, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, originally written in 1951 by Herman Wouk, is being retold for modern times and will follow the United States Navy while on trial ...