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  • Sheinkin, Steve.
     
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  • United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
     
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  • African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
     
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    The Port Chicago 50 [electronic resource] : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights / Steve Sheinkin.
    by Sheinkin, Steve.
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    New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
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  • United States. Navy -- African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, African American -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
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  • Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944 -- Juvenile literature.
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  • African American sailors -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
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  • African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
  • Electronic Resourcehttp://hawaii.lib.overdrive.com/ContentDetails.htm?ID=50BD4DF8-9179-47A5-9360-D369C5BBD410 This title is available online; click here to access
    Electronic Resourcehttp://images.contentreserve.com/ImageType-100/2390-1/{50BD4DF8-9179-47A5-9360-D369C5BBD410}Img100.jpg
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    9781596439832 (electronic bk.)
    1596439831 (electronic bk.)
    Description: 
    1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations.
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Contents: 
    First hero -- The policy -- Port Chicago -- Work oand 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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    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.
    Awards: 
    Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, 2014 : Nonfiction. Please see this link for futher information: http://www.hbook.com/2014/05/news/boston-globe-horn-book-awards/2014-boston-globe-horn-book-awards-excellence-childrens-literature/#_
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