The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors who refused to go back to work after an explosion that killed ... Mostly Black personnel and white officers were assigned to the base at the time ...

After the explosion, white sailors were given leave while the Black sailors had to return to handling ammunition without proper training or equipment. When the sailors refused to load the ships ...

While white officers were given hardship leave after the devastating explosion, Black sailors were ordered back to work, tasked with cleaning the devastated base − including the human remains of ...

The explosion killed 320 sailors — of which 202 were black — and injured another 400 personnel. The remaining Black sailors were tasked to retrieve the bodies and clean the site. The white ...

and the job of loading those ships was left primarily to Black enlisted sailors overseen by white officers. Before the explosion, the Black sailors working the dock had expressed concerns about ...

and the job of loading those ships was left primarily to Black enlisted sailors overseen by White officers. Before the explosion, the Black sailors working the dock had expressed concerns about ...

and the job of loading those ships was left primarily to Black enlisted sailors overseen by white officers. Before the explosion, the Black sailors working the dock had expressed concerns about ...