After the war, many African Americans lost their well-paying jobs. Displaced by the men who had returned from the war, they were now relegated to menial labor. In 1964, the shipyard averaged 7,000 workers. In addition to the work at the NRDL, activities at the shipyard included the conversion of the U.S.S. Chicago from a gunner to a guided missile cruiser.

Hunters Point Housing project, 1961