Leo T. reviewed The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights on + 1775 more book reviews
Taking the San Joaquin to Oakland at the turn of the present century, the conductor announced that we were passing Port Chicago. It was just a wide place on the shoreline and I don't know if many of Amtrak passengers recalled its significance.
Aimed at YA, the book is largely text but includes a number of photographs. The author acknowledges his debt to Dr. Robert Allen's interviews with sailors involved and to a few remaining survivors. The fate of the fifty convicted of mutiny is eloquently shared.
Endnotes, bibliography and index.
The late Mr. Kennady, who I knew at a nursing home patient, was there but told me he was lucky enough to be on leave when it went down. He long worked as a farm labor contractor and he and his wife in the end had ten acres of good land in Kern County.
Another side of the argument about Black GIs being relegated to stevedore duties (like the late Mr. Salton of Mission Hills, serving in the ETO, in Marseilles) was expressed several years ago by a WWII vet who wrote the LA Times, noting that a lot of non-Black guys pulled stevedore duty unloading these ships.
Aimed at YA, the book is largely text but includes a number of photographs. The author acknowledges his debt to Dr. Robert Allen's interviews with sailors involved and to a few remaining survivors. The fate of the fifty convicted of mutiny is eloquently shared.
Endnotes, bibliography and index.
The late Mr. Kennady, who I knew at a nursing home patient, was there but told me he was lucky enough to be on leave when it went down. He long worked as a farm labor contractor and he and his wife in the end had ten acres of good land in Kern County.
Another side of the argument about Black GIs being relegated to stevedore duties (like the late Mr. Salton of Mission Hills, serving in the ETO, in Marseilles) was expressed several years ago by a WWII vet who wrote the LA Times, noting that a lot of non-Black guys pulled stevedore duty unloading these ships.