The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Record details
- ISBN: 0605795304 (permabound)
- ISBN: 9780605795303 (permabound)
- ISBN: 1596437960 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
- ISBN: 9781596437968 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
- ISBN: 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781596437968 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 1596437960 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
- Copyright: ©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. |
Summary, etc.: | On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked the segregated Navy base at Port Chicago, California, killing more than 300 sailors who were at the docks, critically injuring off-duty men in their bunks, and shattering windows up to a mile away. On August 9th, 244 men refused to go back to work until unsafe and unfair conditions at the docks were addressed. When the dust settled, fifty were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution. This is a story of the prejudice that faced black men and women in America's armed forces during World War II, and a nuanced look at those who gave their lives in service of a country where they lacked the most basic rights. |
Target Audience Note: | Ages 10-15. |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR Upper Grades 6.7 6.0 quiz: 163116. Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.40 10.0 quiz: 62377. |
Awards Note: | Excellence in Young Adult Nonfiction finalist, 2015 Boston Globe/Horn Book Nonfiction Award Winner, 2014 |
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