Kevin Ashley is a local historian documenting Coronado's Black history, and curator of the Coronado Historical Association's current exhibition, 'An Island Looks Back: Uncovering Coronado's Hidden African-American History.
Something was off about the story of the death of a Black man who was traveling on the ferry between Coronado and San Diego in 1946. Initial news accounts at the time said that the man, Alton Collier, argued with a couple of White sailors, slashed one of them with a knife, and when they responded with boat hooks, Collier jumped overboard and subsequently drowned.
San Diego police and Coronado police have both refused to pick up the case during that time, and the chief of police of Coronado, June Jordan, who was trained by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and knows Alton, admits that something doesn’t add up here. Gilbert and Johnson are in the brig in the Navy, pending the results of this coroner’s jury. In the coroner’s jury, they listen to as many eyewitness reports as possible.
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