The Navy on Wednesday exonerated 256 Black sailors found to be unjustly punished in 1944, after a deadly California port explosion revealed racial disparities in the military, Navy Secretary ...

Because of the dangerous conditions and lack of training, hundreds of Black sailors, who had been subjected to racism in a segregated Navy, refused to return to work. Fifty were charged with mutiny.

Historian Glenn Knoblock has written books on the experiences of Black sailors in the U.S. Navy. GLENN KNOBLOCK: You could almost think of them as personal servants. PRICE: But during battle ...

Bruns, former director of the Department of the Navy's museum system ... Naturally we get a look at race relations in the fleet. White sailors often resented taking orders from Black men of superior ...

This image provided by Naval History and Heritage Command, shows African American Sailors of a naval ordnance battalion unloading aerial bombs from a railcar, circa 1943/44, in Port Chicago, Calif.