Title The Port Chicago 50 [OverDrive/Libby electronic resource] disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.

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New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource
	text file rda
	eBook tlcgt
	Juvenile tlctarget
Note	Electronic book.
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.
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.
Audience	950L Lexile
Note	950L Lexile
Study Program	Accelerated Reader UG 6.7 6 163116
Note	Accelerated Reader UG 6.7 6 163116
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. New York Roaring Brook Press 2014 Available via World Wide Web.
Subject	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.
	United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Genre	Electronic books.
Added Author	OverDrive, Inc., distributor.
Added Title	Port Chicago fifty
ISBN	9781596439832 (electronic bk.)

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