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Port Chicago explosion
July 17, 1944
Concord, California
Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Two ships loading munitions detonated, killing 320 men, two-thirds of them Black sailors assigned to the work without training. When 258 survivors refused to resume loading, fifty were convicted of mutiny. The last was pardoned in 1999.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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