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Author Sheinkin, Steve.

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

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1588169~S1
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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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.
Local Subject REBECCA CAUDILL AWARD [2017 NOMINEE]
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature.
Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.
Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944.
Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
African American sailors -- History -- 20th century.
African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century.
United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Added Title Port Chicago fifty
ISBN 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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