Letter to Navy: Re-Examining the Case of the Port Chicago 50August 9, 2023 By CCCBA Port Chicago Task Force, BEC, Citizens for Historical Equity, PAAACT
Letter to Navy: Exoneration Arguments Grounded in Legal ConceptsJuly 17, 2023 By CCCBA Port Chicago Task Force, BEC, Citizens for Historical Equity
H.Con.Res.16 - Recognizing the victims, Exonerating the 50 sailors unjustly court-martialed by the Navy Introduced February 2023, Currently in the U.S. House of Representatives
Justice Still Awaits Port Chicago 50 By Kevin C. Miller / Disabled American Veterans - February 2023 External Link DAV.org
Exonerate the Port Chicago 50! By Contra Costa County Bar Association Port Chicago Taskforce - December 2022 External Link Change.org
Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad By Matthew F. Delmont - October 18, 2022
A Deadly World War II Explosion Sparked Black Soldiers to Fight for Equal Treatment By Matthew F. Delmont - September 2022 External Link SmithsonianMag.com
Port Chicago Taskforce: Letter to California Senators By Contra Costa County Bar Association Port Chicago Taskforce - September 2022 View PDF 192 KB
The Port Chicago 50: Dignity in Defiance By Citizens for Historical Equity - July 2022 View PDF 9.1 MB
Black sailors who survived the WWII Port Chicago explosion deserve justice By Paul L. Newman - July 2021 External Link SFChronicle.com
H.Con.Res.40 - Recognizing the victims, Exonerating the 50 sailors unjustly court-martialed by the Navy Introduced July 2021, Not Adopted
New East Bay Park to be Named After Thurgood Marshall, Port Chicago 50 By East Bay Times - June 2021 View PDF 1.7 MB
Letter Recommending Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50 By U.S. Representative Mark DeSaulnier - May 2021
"Unity Letter" Recommending Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50 By Friends of Port Chicago, Citizens for Historical Equity, NAACP East County, and United Veterans Council of Pittsburg - February 2021
Proposal to Name Thurgood Marshall Regional Park – Home of the Port Chicago 50 By Citizens for Historical Equity - October 2020 View PDF 15.5 MB
Petition to Rename Bay Area Park To Honor Thurgood Marshall By Citizens for Historical Equity - August 2020 External Link Change.org
The Port Chicago 50 at 76: Time for Exoneration by Thurgood Marshall, Jr. and John A. Lawrence - July 2020 External Link The National WWII Museum
Exonerating the Port Chicago 50 is About the Future By Lieutenant Joe Hanacek, U.S. Navy - February 2020 External Link U.S. Naval Institute
'This base is going to blow sky high.' Port Chicago, 75 years later By Public Affairs - July 17, 2019
The Port Chicago Disaster - Leadership Lessons Learned By Regina T. Akers, PhD, NHHC Histories and Archives Division - June 2019 External Link History.Navy.mil
H.Con.Res.49 - Recognizing the victims, Exonerating the 50 sailors unjustly court-martialed by the Navy Introduced June 2019, Not Adopted
The Impact of the Port Chicago Disaster that Killed 320 Black Sailors by Military.com - March 2018 External Link Military.com
H.Res.452 - Regarding the necessity to publically exonerate the African-American sailors Introduced July 2017, Not Adopted
SR69 - Relative to the Port Chicago Disaster Introduced March 2016, Adopted and to Assembly June 2016
H.Res.616 - Regarding the necessity to publically exonerate the African-American sailors Introduced February 2016, Not Adopted
SJR-21 - Vindicate the sailors unjustly blamed for, and the sailors convicted of mutiny following, the Port Chicago disaster June 2010
NDAA 2010 - Transfer of administrative jurisdiction, Port Chicago Naval Magazine Became Law October 2009
H.R.1044 - Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Enhancement Act of 2009 Became Law July 2009
H.R. 3111 - Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Enhancement Act of 2008 Introduced July 2007, Referred to the Committee on Armed Services
H. RES. 813 - Recognizing the 60th anniversary of the explosion, and those who served and lost their lives in that tragedy. Introduced September 2004
Port Chicago explosion still echoes 60 years later by Jason B. Johnson - July 2004 External Link San Francisco Chronicle
