Lindsey said, “What a tragedy.”
Marvia said, “That was just the beginning.”
Coffman said, “You take over for a while, Marvia. I’m getting dry. I’m going to see if Miriam needs a hand in the kitchen. And I want to check on the kids. They’re being suspiciously quiet.”
Marvia was sitting on the couch beside Lindsey. She turned so she was facing him. “After the explosion came the mutiny. The sailors claimed they hadn’t been trained in loading explosives. They had a lot of other grievances, too. Do you know Tommy Morris, Bart?”
He shook his head.
“I’ll introduce you to him. He’s a friend of my dad’s. He was a Port Chicago sailor. He told me there was a little mutiny even before the explosion. The white officers were pretty hard on the sailors. There were some black petty officers, they wer
