The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
2014
D810.N4 S44 2014 (Mapit)
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Title
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
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Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781596437968 hardcover alkaline paper
1596437960 hardcover alkaline paper
1596437960 hardcover alkaline paper
Published
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Language
English
Description
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
D810.N4 S44 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
940.54/5308996073079463
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index.
Awards
Boston Globe/Horn Book Award, 2014.
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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.
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.