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Download or read book Port Chicago Mutiny written by Robert L. Allen and published by HarperPB. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the disastrous explosion at a World War II Navy dock north of Oakland, California that killed hundreds of people, many of them African-American dock workers. Later when the workers mutinied against unsafe working conditions, the "Port Chicago 50" were sentenced at a courts-martial trial to prison. After public outcry, almost all the sentences were reduced.