Title:
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Author:
Sheinkin, Steve.
ISBN:
9781596437968
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edtion.
Publication Information:
New York :
Roaring Brook Press,
2014.
Physical Description:
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Abstract:
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.
Reading Level:
950L Lexile
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.7 6 163116.
Subject Term:
Publication Date:
2014
AR Level:
6.7
