Sheppard was a third-class gunner's mate in the Navy in Port Chicago, California. He and fellow Black sailors in the Bay Area were tasked with a dangerous job they weren't trained to do ...

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CHICAGO, Feb. 1. -- When Luman T. Hoy of Woodstock to-day became Appraiser of the Port of Chicago, succeeding Gen. H. H. Thomas, the retiring Appraiser made public a letter he has sent to ...