Remembering Port Chicago & Cyril O. Sheppard

This event does not require registration.

Following two massive explosions in 1944 in Port Chicago, California, that killed 320 American sailors and injured 390 more, the US Navy branded 50 young Black sailors as mutineers for their refusal to return to the unsafe working conditions that caused the explosions.

These 50 Black sailors would be known as The Port Chicago 50. They protested their unfair treatment, and were tried and wrongly convicted of mutiny. This program will tell their story, and follow their decades-long fight for justice.

This program is free and open to teens and adults. No registration is required.

For additional information, please contact Chelsea at [email protected] or at (815) 756-9568 ext. 1700.

Host or Publisher DeKalb Public Library