The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
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TextEdition: First Square Fish editionDescription: 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN: - 1250073499
- 9781250073495
- 1536401382
- 9781536401387
- United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature
- African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- 940.54/5308996073079463 23
- D810.N4 S44 2017
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| 940.54 Nat Yankee Doodle gals : | 940.54 ODo Operatives, spies, and saboteurs : | 940.54 Ric Strategic battles in the Pacific / | 940.54 SHE The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin. | 940.54 Spe The war at home : | 940.54 Zif The bombing of Hiroshima/ | 940.541 Courage has no color, the true story of the Triple Nickles : |
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.
Reading Counts RC 7.4 10.0 62377.
Accelerated Reader AR 6.7 6.0 163116.
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