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

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

Sheinkin, Steve, (author.).

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 1250073499
  • ISBN: 9781250073495
  • Physical Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st Square Fish edition
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Square Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC, 2017.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index.
Target Audience Note:
950L Lexile

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Caswell County Public Library.

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Gunn Memorial Public Library YA 940.54 SHE (Text) 34621991114334 Young Adult Nonfiction Available -