Describe the types of jobs assigned to black servicemen in the navy at this time, How did Joe Small and Thurgood Marshall react to learning about these injustices?

Despite the racism and segregation that existed across America, including in the military, hundreds of thousands of black men came to serve in America’s military forces. All of them wanted to protect and defend their home – right or wrong, America was still their country, and was their best chance for a better future. Individually, the men who came to serve at Port Chicago all did so for different reasons as well as wanting to defend their homeland. Jack Crittendon realized that all Americans, no matter their background, were facing a common enemy that must be defeated. Percy Robinson wanted to join to prove blacks were just as capable of things like combat as whites. Black Americans served in many military roles except top posts.