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

disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil rights

by Steve Sheinkin

200 pages · 2014

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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.

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