The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
| Author/creator | Sheinkin, Steve author. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | First edtion. |
| Publication | New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014. |
| Copyright Date | ©2014 |
| Description | 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Variant title | Port Chicago fifty |
| 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. |
| Local note | Little-359951--305131065864% |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (page 191) and index. |
| LCCN | 2013013452 |
| ISBN | 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper) |