President Pardons Veteran Convicted in 1944 Mutiny (1999)

Associated Press - December 1999

External Link Washington Post

Petition for Pardon of Seaman Second Class Freddie Meeks (1999)

May 1999

View PDF 45.5 MB

AJR-52 - California - Relative to the Port Chicago disaster (1998)

Introduced in Assembly, Not Adopted - 1998

Blown Away, Segregation in The Military Ended with a Bang and a Whimper (1994)

By John Boudreau

External Link Washington Post

Injustice Upheld in Port Chicago Mutiny Trial (1994)

View PDF 2.8 MB

Navy Review: Letter Summarizing the Board for Correction of Naval Records' Findings (1994)

View PDF 12.5 MB

Navy Review: Board for Correction of Naval Records (1994)

View PDF 69 MB

Book: The Port Chicago Mutiny (1989)

By Robert L. Allen

The Port Chicago Disaster and its Aftermath (1982)

By Robert L. Allen

View PDF 18.2 MB

Book: Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 (1981)

By Marcus J. MacGregor, Jr.

The Port Chicago Story (1950s) Training Film

Executive Order 9981 - Desegregation of the Armed Forces (1948)

July 26, 1948

Book: The Negro in the Navy (1947)

United States Naval Administrative History of World War II - 1947

Circular Order 48-46 - Desegregation of the Navy (1946)

February 27, 1946

Memorandum: Release the Sailors, Restore to Duty

January 9, 1946

View PDF 1.2 MB

Recommendation for Clemency and Restoration to Duty

October 6, 1945

Letter to Thurgood Marshall from Port Chicago Sailor Edward Saunders

June 8, 1945

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Free the 50 Negro Sailors in the Port Chicago Case (St. Paul NAACP)

1945

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Appeal Memorandum from Secretary of the Navy

May 17, 1945

View PDF 6.1 MB

Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt

April 8, 1945

View PDF 765 KB

NAACP Mutiny Pamphlet Distributed to Navy Secretary James Forrestal

April 3, 1945

View PDF 2.4 MB

Statement of Thurgood Marshall to Judge Advocate General

April 3, 1945

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Thurgood Marshall's Appeal Brief to Judge Advocate General

April 3, 1945

View PDF 3.4 MB

NAACP Mutiny Pamphlet (1945)

March 1945

View PDF 10.6 MB

NAACP Editorial: Mass Crucifixion

January 1945

ACLU: Story of the Navy Mutiny Trial

December 1944

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NAACP Fights For Convicted Sailors

October 30, 1944

View PDF 1.2 MB

NAACP Press Release (1944)

October 13, 1944

View PDF 1.2 MB

Newspapers from 1944: Objections to Mutiny Trial

October 1944

Letter from Thurgood Marshall to Secretary Forrestal

October 19, 1944

View PDF 4.1 MB

Navy Denies Racial Segregation at Port Chicago, Mare Island

September 22, 1944

View PDF 4.9 MB

Letter from NAACP to Secretary Forrestal

September 16, 1944

View PDF 4.9 MB

Newspapers from 1944: Port Chicago Mutiny Trial

September 16-23, 1944

Memorandum from President Roosevelt (1944)

September 2, 1944

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Navy's Court of Inquiry Report - Opinion and Recommendations

August 29, 1944 / Approved October 30, 1944

View PDF 5.3 MB

Navy's Court of Inquiry Report - Finding of Facts

August 29, 1944 / Approved October 30, 1944

View PDF 11.5 MB

Navy's Court of Inquiry

August 29, 1944 / Approved October 30, 1944

External Link History.Navy.mil

Confidential: Navy Secretary James Forrestal's Report to President Roosevelt

August 28, 1944

View PDF 1.1 MB

Confidential: Negro Personnel Are Not To Be Assigned to Hazardous Work Exclusively

August 12, 1944

View PDF 5.9 MB

Port Chicago Naval Magazine's Report on the Disaster

July 1944

US Navy: Two Hundred Black Sailors Volunteer, Exhibit Bravery and Outstanding Conduct During the Emergency

July 20, 1944

4.5 MB

Newspapers from 1944: Port Chicago Disaster

July 19, 1944

Letter: "Waiting for a New Deal" by Port Chicago Sailors

April 1943