The Port Chicago 50 : : Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
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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.
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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PUBLISHED
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781596437968
SUBJECTS
United States. -- Navy -- History -- 20th century.
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 -- History -- 20th century.