A daily, pocket-sized history of America's working people, brought to you by The Rick Smith Show team.
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Jul 17, 2015
Jul 17, 2015
1 min
On this day in Labor History the year was 1944. A crew of mostly black soldiers were loading munitions onto ships at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, northeast of Oakland. 320 soldiers were killed by a munitions explosion that wounded another 390 people.
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