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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250073499
- ISBN: 9781250073495
- Physical Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First Square Fish edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2014
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in the United States by Roaring Brook Press [2014]. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Study Program Information Note: | Reading Counts RC 7.4 10.0 62377. Accelerated Reader AR 6.7 6.0 163116. |
| Awards Note: | Oregon Battle of the Books 2019-20, Grades 6-8. |
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