The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
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TextEdition: First edtionDescription: 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- Port Chicago fifty
- United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century
- 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
- 940.54/5308996073079463 23
- D810.N4 S44 2014
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Chamberlin Free Public Library | Young Adult | YA 940.54 SHE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34480000532337 |
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.
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