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Sheinkin, Steve.

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights Port Chicago fifty - First edtion. - 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (page 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.

ISBN: 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2013013452

Subjects--Corporate Names:
United States. Navy --African Americans--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.
United States. Navy --African Americans--History--20th century.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
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.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American.
Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.
Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944.
African American sailors--History--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.

LC Class. No.: D810.N4 / S44 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 940.54/5308996073079463