“This is not 50 men on trial for mutiny. This is the Navy on trial for its whole vicious policy toward Negroes.”
The future Supreme Court Justice was the chief special counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. in 1944, when he went to California to observe the Chicago 50 trial.
The future Supreme Court Justice was the chief special counsel for the N.A.A.C.P. in 1944, when he went to California to observe the Chicago 50 trial.