The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
Sheinkin, Steve,
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin. - First Square Fish edition. - 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index.
First hero -- The policy -- Port Chicago -- Work and liberty -- The lawyer -- Hot cargo -- The explosion -- The inquiry -- Column left -- Prison barge -- The fifty -- Treasure Island -- Prosecution -- Joe Small -- The verdict -- Hard labor -- Small goes to sea -- Epilogue: Civil rights heroes.
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
1250073499 9781250073495 1536401382 9781536401387
D810.N4 / S44 2017
940.54/5308996073079463
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin. - First Square Fish edition. - 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index.
First hero -- The policy -- Port Chicago -- Work and liberty -- The lawyer -- Hot cargo -- The explosion -- The inquiry -- Column left -- Prison barge -- The fifty -- Treasure Island -- Prosecution -- Joe Small -- The verdict -- Hard labor -- Small goes to sea -- Epilogue: Civil rights heroes.
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
1250073499 9781250073495 1536401382 9781536401387
D810.N4 / S44 2017
940.54/5308996073079463