Remembering Port Chicago
World War II Experience: Season 2
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TV-PG, 01-Jun-2017
Directed by Alexander Zane Irwin
In California's Bay Area, a painful memory lingers of the Port Chicago disaster of WWII, when hundreds of the Navy's first Black Sailors perished, and the White officers in charge were protected by the chain of command.
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