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WEEKLY EDITION (NPR), AUGUST 9, 1997
Port Chicago explosion.
DR. ROBERT ALLEN, AUTHOR OF "THE PORT CHICAGO MUTINY": Clearly, that was a great
injustice done here. There was no mutiny. The men should not have been charged
with mutiny in the first place, much less been found guilty.
ERLICH: Dr. Allen adds that the Navy's fear of negative publicity from the trial
yielded unexpected results.
ALLEN: Because of the pressure that had been generated by organizations like the
NAACP, the following year the Navy actually began desegregating its training
facilities at Great Lakes. And by the following year, they were desegregating
their shore facilities and the ships themselves.
ERLICH: A Navy spokesperson declined to speak on tape, but issued a statement
saying the Navy Judge Advocate's Office is investigating to see "the extent, if
any, to which racial prejudice may have tainted the original trials."
Freddie Meeks and other Port Chicago survivors say the Navy should reverse the
convictions, give them honorable discharges, and grant full benefits denied them
all these years.
I'm Reese Erlich in Oakland.
CONAN: Three years ago, a Navy review found that the charges and sentences
issued to the Port Chicago mutineers were consistent with other cases of sailors
who refused to carry out orders in wartime.
No quotes from the materials contained herein may be used in any media
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