Port Chicago Naval Magazine National Memorial Oral History CollectionThe following digital content is taken from the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkely and is part of a collaboration.
The National Park Service, in partnership with the UC Berkeley Bancroft Library, has processed and digitized the Robert Allen Port Chicago Papers (POCH 26). Included in the archive are nine oral histories, told from the perspective of the survivors themselves, which were conducted by Robert Allen, activist, writer, and retired professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the UC Berkeley. First published in 1993 and subsequently in 2006, Dr. Allen's book, The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in the US. Naval History, is the leading scholarly source on the events at Port Chicago. During the course of his research, Allen was able to interview many of the surviving sailors; all of his narrators are now deceased. These interviews are some of the only surviving first-person accounts of the events. |
Last updated: September 19, 2023