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2014., Roaring Brook Press Call No: U S HISTORY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
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2014., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: Civil Rights NF SHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
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2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 53 08996073079463 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement.
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2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 940.54 SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement.
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2014., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 5308996073079463 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In July 1944 an explosion at a California navy base killed hundreds of sailors loading munitions. Fifty black seamen, refusing to resume work in unsafe conditions, were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.
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2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 SHEINKIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement.
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-- Port Chicago fifty2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 SHE Edition: First edtion. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Port Chicago fifty2017., Juvenile, Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 SHEINKIN Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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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-- Port Chicago FiftyÃ2014, Pre-adolescent, Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 53 089 96 073 0794 63 Edition: 1st Square Fish ed.: 2017. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
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-- Port Chicago Fifty2014., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 53 08996073 0794 63 Edition: 1st ed. 2014. Availability:2 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and how the incident influenced civil rights.
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-- Port Chicago fifty2017., Juvenile, Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 SHEINKIN Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:17 of 17 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
