05 Jan Betty Reid Soskin photo by A. Ray Harvey, 7.20.2024

source caption: Betty Reid Soskin, left, attended the 80th commemoration of the Port Chicago disaster near Concord on July 20, 2024. Soskin and her husband were hosting a party in Berkeley on July 17, 1944, when an ammunition explosion at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine killed 320 sailors, 202 of whom were African American. About eight Black sailors left the Soskins’ home to return to the naval base. She never saw them again. CBM photo by Antonio Ray Harvey.