Navy exonerates Black sailors convicted in largest mutiny in U.S. history
The Port Chicago 50, a group of Black sailors charged and convicted in the largest U.S. Navy mutiny in history, were exonerated by the U.S. Navy on Wednesday. The decision culminates a mission for Carol Cherry of Sycamore, Ill., who fought to have her father, Cyril Sheppard, and his fellow sailors cleared. The Secretary of the Navy, Carlos Del Toro, said the sailors' court martial contained 'significant legal errors that rendered them fundamentally unfair.
Also being requested to load those ships as quickly as they possibly could without any sense of the dangers that itself would present, it's just an injustice that, you know, is just wrong,' Del Toro told CBS News Chicago. After he left work one night, there was an explosion. And then another. Three hundred twenty were killed, and 390 were hurt on July 17, 1944. It was the worst home-front disaster of World War II.
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