Title:
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
Other Title:
Port Chicago fifty
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edtion.
Publication:
New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Publication Date:
2014
ISBN:
9781596437968
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index.
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.
Abstract:
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.
Content Type:
text
Carrier Type:
volume
Language:
English
Subject:
