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The Resource The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights, Steve Sheinkin

The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights, Steve Sheinkin

Label
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Title
The Port Chicago 50
Title remainder
disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Statement of responsibility
Steve Sheinkin
Title variation
Port Chicago fifty
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
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
Writing style
Award
  • ALA Notable Children's Book, 2015
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Nonfiction, 2014.
  • Carter G. Woodson Book Awards: Secondary Level, 2015.
  • School Library Journal Best Books: Nonfiction, 2014
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
10276622
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Sheinkin, Steve
Dewey number
940.54/5308996073079463
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/minGradeLevel
  • 7
  • 12
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
True
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • United States
  • World War, 1939-1945
  • Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944
  • Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944
  • African American sailors
  • African Americans
Target audience
adolescent
http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights
Label
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights, Steve Sheinkin
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
200 pages
Isbn
9781596437968
Isbn Type
(hc)
Lccn
2013013452
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Note
  • Yalsa award finalist, 2015
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)841206020
  • (OCoLC)ocm17709800
Label
The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights, Steve Sheinkin
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-191) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Dimensions
24 cm
Edition
First edition.
Extent
200 pages
Isbn
9781596437968
Isbn Type
(hc)
Lccn
2013013452
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Note
  • Yalsa award finalist, 2015
  • Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)841206020
  • (OCoLC)ocm17709800

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