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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin. Cover Image Book Book

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.

Sheinkin, Steve, (author.).

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.

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.

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.

Search for related items by subject

Subject: 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 literature.

Available copies

  • 14 of 14 copies available at Sage Library System. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Malheur County Public Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Nyssa Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Nyssa Public Library j940.5453 SHE pb (Text) 36660000526219 Juvenile Non-Fiction Available -

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