The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
Material type: TextEdition: First edtionDescription: 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)Other title: Port Chicago fiftySubject(s): United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature | 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 literatureDDC classification: 940.54/5308996073079463 LOC classification: D810.N4 | S44 2014Current library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 940.54/SHEINKIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | Gift of the Want to Know Club | 39844500037078 |
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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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