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

Título:

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Resumen:

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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Port Chicago fifty

Fecha de publicación como intervalo:

2014

Descripción física:

200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edición:

First edtion.

Contenido:

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.

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2014 Boston Globe Horn Book Nonfiction Award winner

Materia corporativa:

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

Término de la materia:

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