Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Port Chicago 50

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

905523500

resource.studyProgramName

Reading Counts RC, 7.4, 10.0, 62377.Accelerated Reader AR, 6.7, 6.0, 163116.

Sub title

disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin

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

Table Of 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

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