The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

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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
1596437960

Edition:

First edtion

Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Port Chicago fifty

Notes:

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

LCCN:

2013013452

Control Number:

1640712

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