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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

By: Material type: TextTextEdition: First edtionDescription: 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Port Chicago fifty
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/5308996073079463 23
LOC classification:
  • D810.N4 S44 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.

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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