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

Title:

ISBN:

9781596437968

Personal Author:

Sheinkin, Steve

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.

Physical 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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader UG 6.7 6 163116

Corporate Subject:

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

Subject Term:

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

Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944

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

African American sailors -- History 20th century.

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

Black sailors -- History 20th century

Black people--United States -- Civil rights -- History 20th century

Audience:

950L Lexile

OCLC Number:

ocn841206020

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