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

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.
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Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (page 191) and index.
LCCN 2013013452
ISBN9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)