Fantastic movie... One of my favorite movies being played almost
twice a month on cable..
Even better since the premise of the story is factual..
My Dad was in WWII in the Navy and said that blacks were treated very very badly on board ship... Even where they slept was worse than the whites. (engine rooms, hot etc)
Not until Vietnam were they given responsibility to do anything but cook, clean and manual labor due to lack of qualified draftees.