TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sheinkin,Steve
TI  - The Port Chicago 50: disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin
SN  - 1250073499
AV  - D810.N4 S44 2017
U1  - 940.54/5308996073079463 23
KW  - United States
KW  - Navy
KW  - African Americans
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Participation, African American
KW  - Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944
KW  - Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944
KW  - African American sailors
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Literature
KW  - fast
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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; Reading Counts RC; 7.4; 10.0; 62377; Accelerated Reader AR; 6.7; 6.0; 163116
N2  - 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
ER  -