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.

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 ...

It is denied at the Navy Department ... by the elimination of the black men or by his consolidation, as is the case in the army. It is admitted that blacks make good sailors, but it is urged ...

The U.S. Navy joins the nation in celebrating the history of African American Sailors and civilians during African American/Black History Month, Feb. 1-28. This year's theme is 'African Americans ...

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 ...

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.