The Henry J. Kaiser shipyards fueled the growth of Richmond, which went from a small industrial city to more than 100,000 people, Walker said. “It just grew like a mushroom.” And Bay Area shipyards ...

when she moved from Chico to Berkeley with her husband Theodore Rushton to work at the Richmond Kaiser shipyards. A corner of Veterans Memorial Park where a rose garden is planned on Friday ...

During the war, the Kaiser shipyards attracted tens of thousands of workers of all races and backgrounds to this then-semi-rural bayside community, quintupling its population and transforming it ...

Even as a Black man, he had no trouble finding work in the Kaiser Shipyards supporting the war effort. However, when the war ended, Mims and scores of other people of color were dismissed, leaving ...

The garden will be named after Chico native Claudine Rushton, who served in World War II. Rushton served as a welder and a ...

Larry Nelson was settled into retirement. But when given the opportunity to step up as the president of NAACP Vancouver, he felt there was still important work to be done.

American Justice on Trial: People v. Newton is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ...

During World War II, Negroes began to migrate by the thousands to work in the Kaiser shipyards on the Oakland waterfront; after the war, they kept coming. Since 1950 the number of Negroes in the ...