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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Audience Youth 0-15 years
Published 2014 by Roaring Brook Press, New York
ISBN 9781596437968
Bib Id 751904
Edition First edtion.
Description 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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2013-013452
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9781596437968 (hbk.) : $20.00
9780605795303 (permabound)
0605795304
1596437960
9781250073495 paperback $13.00
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940.5453 S
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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Varying Form of Title
Port Chicago fifty
Edition
First edtion.
Publication Information
2014 by Roaring Brook Press, New York :
Description
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 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.
Awards
Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction finalist, 2015.
Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner, 2014. Please see this link for futher information: http://www.hbook.com/2014/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/2014-boston-globe-horn-book-awards-excellence-childrens-literature/#_
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