The Port Chicago 50
Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Steve Sheinkin
208 pages· 2014· ISBN 9781596437968
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The Newbery Award-winning and National Book Award finalist author of Bomb 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.
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