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

Title:

Personal Author EPSB:

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.

Other Title:

Port Chicago fifty

Year Published:

2014

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edtion.

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.

Awards:

2014 Boston Globe Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner

Corporate Subject:

United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century.

Subject:

World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American.

Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944.

Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944.

African American sailors -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

ISBN:

9781596437968