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Item Nr: B 119291 Title: Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight For Civil Rights
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Sheinkin, Steve
Length: 200 Prod/Pub: Roaring Brook Press
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 3 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  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. World War, 1939-1945 Participation, African American. Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944. National Book Award 2014 finalist. Horn Book Award Winner 2014 - Nonfiction. AR 6.7 RC 7.4 Lexile 950 IL 6-10.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  58 - AMERICA--HISTORY/AMERICAN
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  400 - DISASTERS
  401 - DISCRIMINATION
  1679 - LEXILE 900-999
  1439 - PREJUDICES/PREJUDICE
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  978 - SAILORS/SEAMEN
  1131 - U.S. NAVY
  1187 - WORLD WAR II, 1939-1945