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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Title:
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Author:
Sheinkin, Steve.
Personal Author:
Sheinkin, Steve.
Edition:
First edtion.
Publication Information:
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
950 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 6.0 163116.

Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.4 10 Quiz: 62377.
Corporate Subject:
United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century. -- Juvenile literature.
Subject Term:
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.

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.
ISBN:
9781596437968
Format :
Book

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