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[2018]., Adolescent, Atheneum Call No: Historical Fiction FIC GUT Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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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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-- 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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-- World War 2 naval forcesc2013., Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: SER 940.54 RAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: You choose books. World War IiSummary Note: "Describes the role sailors played during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--Provided by publisher.