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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
- Title
- The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
- Author
- Sheinkin, Steve
- Publication
- New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 15-1644 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-5867 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- 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.
- Alternative Title
- Port Chicago fifty
- Subjects
- Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 > Juvenile literature
- African American sailors > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- World War, 1939-1945 > Participation, African American > Juvenile literature
- Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 > Juvenile literature
- African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- United States > Navy > African Americans > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 15-1644
- ISBN
- 9781596437968
- 1596437960
- LCCN
- 2013013452
- OCLC
- 841206020
- Author
- Sheinkin, Steve, author.
- Title
- The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
- Publisher
- New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 15-1644JFE 14-5867