Title The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.

Publication Info.	New York, NY : Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2017.
	©2014

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Edition	First Square Fish edition
Description	200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-191) and index.
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.
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.
Study Program	Reading Counts RC 7.4 10.0 62377.
	Accelerated Reader AR 6.7 6.0 163116.
Subject	United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	United States. Navy. (OCoLC)fst00533204
	Port Chicago Mutiny (California : 1944) (OCoLC)fst01411597
	Port Chicago Mutiny Trial (San Francisco, California : 1944) (OCoLC)fst01404609
	World War (1939-1945) (OCoLC)fst01180924
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature.
	Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
	Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
	African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	African American sailors. (OCoLC)fst00799342
	African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
	Armed Forces -- African Americans. (OCoLC)fst01351729
	Military participation -- African American. (OCoLC)fst01353696
	California -- Port Chicago. (OCoLC)fst01214570
	California -- San Francisco. (OCoLC)fst01204481
	Military participation -- African American.
	African American sailors.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	Military participation -- African American.
	Armed Forces -- African Americans.
	San Francisco (Calif.)
	Port Chicago (Calif.)
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
ISBN	1250073499 (paperback)
	9781250073495 (paperback)
	1536401382
	9781536401387

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