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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: 9781250073495
  • ISBN: 1250073499
  • Physical Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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  • 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.
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.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Nyssa Public Library j940.5453 SHE pb (Text) 36660000526219 Juvenile Non-Fiction Available -

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