The Port Chicago 50, disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin
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- African Americans + Civil rights
- Juvenile works
- African American sailors
- World War (1939-1945)
- California + Port Chicago
- African American sailors + History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny (California : 1944)
- Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature
- 1900-1999
- History
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial (San Francisco, California : 1944)
- African Americans + Civil rights + History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Armed Forces + African Americans
- California + San Francisco
- World War, 1939-1945 + Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature
- Military participation + African American
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The Port Chicago 50, disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The Port Chicago 50
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
905523500
resource.studyProgramName
Reading Counts RC, 7.4, 10.0, 62377.Accelerated Reader AR, 6.7, 6.0, 163116.
Sub title
disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin
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
Table of 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
Incoming Resources
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