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  • Sheinkin, Steve.
     
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  • United States. Navy -- Blacks -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Black -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
     
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    The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
    by Sheinkin, Steve.
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    Roaring Brook Press, c2014.
    Call #:940.5453 S543p
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  • United States. Navy -- Blacks -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Black -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Sailors, Black -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Blacks -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
  • ISBN: 
    9781596437968
    1596437960
    Alternate title: 
    Port Chicago fifty
    Edition: 
    1st. ed.
    Description: 
    200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    Bibliography: 
    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.
    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.
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