Sheppard, Cyril: assignment after boot camp, expectation about; explosion and damage description; opinion about Delucchi; pace of loading duties; refusal of loading duties at Mare Island; verdict and sentencing
Sikes, Spencer; damage to barracks from explosion; eagerness to serve in Navy; feelings about handling explosives; importance of work at Port Chicago; liberty day; mourning deaths from explosion; reenlistment and Korean War service of; return to Port Chicago after blast
Small, Joseph “Joe”; accidental explosion, danger of; assignment after boot camp, expectation about; Camp Shoemaker brig; CCC experience of; conversation with Delucchi about prison barge; court-martial witness testimony about; daily activities for prisoners; death of; defense strategy; early life of; explosion and damage description; feelings about handling explosives; feelings about importance of decision; feelings about Navy experience; frayed nerves of sailors; Great Lakes training center experience; handling and loading explosives; injuries to sailors from explosion; leadership abilities and role of; liberty days; life after leaving the Navy; lights out activities; morning routine for; mutiny, understanding of; mutiny role of; opinion about Delucchi; pace of loading duties; pardons and overturning conviction, feelings about; path to Navy of; petty officer promotion; prison barge; refusal of loading duties at Mare Island; release from prison and return to active duty; respect for and opinions about; return to barracks after shift; tensions and friendships between black and white sailors; training to handle explosives; transfer to Camp Shoemaker; transfer to Mare Island; verdict and sentencing; winch operations; Wright meeting with
Soublet, Morris
Stubblefield, Edward
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Terminal Island Naval Disciplinary Barracks
Tobin, James
Tobin, Joseph
Trimmingham, Rupert
Truman, Harry
Tuskegee Air Field and training base
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Veltmann, Gerald; closing arguments; court-martial defense assignment; cross-examination testimony; defense strategy and testimony; rigging of court-martial
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Waldrop, Edward
Washington, George
West Virginia
Williams, Albert, Jr.
World War I
World War II: declaration of war against US; end of; Pearl Harbor attack; surrender of Japan; US entrance into
Wright, Carleton; appeal of verdict; explosion, comments to press about; fear by black sailors; mutiny and refusal to obey orders; Navy policy toward black sailors; sentencing following court-martial; Small meeting with
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1. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, African American—Juvenile literature. 2. Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944—Juvenile literature. 3. Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944—Juvenile literature. 4. United States. Navy—African Americans—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. 5. African American sailors—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. 6. African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. I. Title.
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