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Sheinkin, Steve

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

190 pp. | Roaring Brook | January, 2014 | Trade ISBN 978-1-59643-796-8 $19.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-59643-983-2
(2) YA The Port Chicago 50 was a group of black navy recruits assigned the dangerous job of loading bombs onto battleships. When an (inevitable) explosion left hundreds dead, fifty men refused to go back to work, occasioning a trial for mutiny. An unusual entry point for the study of WWII and the nascent civil rights movement. Photographs are helpful, and documentation is thorough. Bib., ind.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2014

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