Digest>June 2004
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Thurgood Marshall gave a valiant defense of the sailors who were charged with the mutiny. At the time, Marshall, who was chief counsel for the NAACP, was given special travel priority by Secretary of the Navy James V. Forrestal. Marshall later became Solicitor General of the U.S. and was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1967. He died in 1993. Back to the edition of: June 2004
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THE GREAT PORT CHICAGO DISASTER and MUTINY
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