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77th anniversary commemoration of the Port Chicago Explosion

Johnnie Burrell resurrects the buried history of 320 lost lives, most of them Black, and 50 exonerated hero African American enlisted sailors racially and unjustly court-martialed by the Navy in the Port Chicago Explosion incident of 1944. 

San Francisco, World War II and African Americans

On Tuesday, Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m., the San Francisco Museum and History Society presents historian Bill Doggett on “San Francisco, World War II and African Americans”; his family lived and made much of that history. The program is in the Milton Marks Auditorium of the State Building, 455 Golden Gate Ave., San Francisco. Join us Tuesday night, Sept. 8, for an evening of remembrance and education.