Format:
Book
Author:
Sheinkin, Steve.
Title:
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
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.
Subjects:
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.
Other Title:
Port Chicago fifty
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.
LCCN:
2013013452
ISBN:
9781596437968
1596437960
Other Number:
841206020
System Availability:
1
Current Holds:
0
# Local items:
1
Control Number:
396279
Call Number:
j 940.5453 Sheinkin
Course Reserves:
0
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