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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
(2014)
By: Sheinkin, Steve

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
TEEN/940.545/SHEINKIN,S
Y/940.545/SHEINKIN,S

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Locations Call Number Status
Teen TEEN/940.545/SHEINKIN,S Available
Kids' Nonfiction Y/940.545/SHEINKIN,S Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper), 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

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Additional Titles

TITLES

Port Chicago fifty

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SUBJECTS

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.

Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.

Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944.

United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century.

African American sailors -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

LOCAL SUBJECTS

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AHML Diversity book project -- Black interest

AHML Diversity book project -- Equity & social issues