Ida B Wells' Winchester Rifle @dytsras.bsky.social · 5d 5. But in 1944, 256 Black military men were court-martialed and convicted of various crimes, and 50 of them were charged with mutiny, and therefore sentenced to 15 years of hard prison labor. It was the biggest Mass Mutiny trial in US Naval history. What was their crime?
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6. Their crime was saying no. Refusing to be killed like their fellow men. On July 17, 1944 an explosion took the lives of over 300 men who were loading explosives onto a ship. The military didnt believe in Black men on the battlefield, so they made them do other menial and dangerous jobs