![]() ![]() Every day they transferred hundreds of tons of bombs and shells from railroad boxcars to the ships. ![]() Navy ammunition depot at Port Chicago, on Suisun Bay some 36 miles northeast of San Francisco, Black seamen worked in shifts around the clock loading ships bound for the Pacific. Delmont, a historian at Dartmouth College, chronicles the service members’ struggles-including a momentous but largely forgotten Navy catastrophe that, he says, “helped force the Navy and the larger military to desegregate.”Īt the U.S. In a new book, Half American, Matthew F. But even as they battled foreign enemies that threatened our democracy, at home these men and women found themselves fighting the same racism and segregation they had endured as civilians. military during World War II, hoping their patriotism and courage would prove them worthy of the nation’s promise of equity for all people. Many African Americans were eager to serve in the U.S. ![]()
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