The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
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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- ISBN: 9781596437968
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Physical Description
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200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm - Edition First edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2014.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 171-189) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |