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The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
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: 9781596437968
- ISBN: 1596437960
- Physical Description: 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) 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. |
| Target Audience Note: | 950L Lexile |
| Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 6 163116. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Barry Lawrence - Cassville Library | Y 940.54 SHE (Text) | 37884102493701 | Youth Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Crawford County Library-Steelville | J940.545 SHE (Text) | 33431000490175 | J Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Jefferson County Library-Arnold | J 940.5453 SHEINKIN (Text) | 30061040048452 | Juvenile Non-Fiction | Available | - |
| Little Dixie - Main Library - Moberly | 940.545 SHEINKIN (Text) | 2003703314 | Non-Fiction Shelves | Available | - |
| Marshall Public Library | J 940.5453 SHE (Text) | 33391000400754 | Juvenile Non-fiction | Available | - |
| North Kansas City Public Library | J 940.545 SHE (Text) | 0001001915444 | JUV Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Crocker | J 940 She (Text) | 33642010021566 | Middle Rdr Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Pulaski County Library-Waynesville | J 940.54 She (Text) | 33642010021525 | Middle Rdr Nonfiction | Available | - |
| St. Joseph - East Hills Library | Y 940.5453 SHE (Text) | 32002003290275 | Young Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
