The Port Chicago 50

  Sheppard, Cyril: assignment after boot camp, expectation about; explosion and damage description; opinion about Delucchi; pace of loading duties; refusal of loading duties at Mare Island; verdict and sentencing

  Sikes, Spencer; damage to barracks from explosion; eagerness to serve in Navy; feelings about handling explosives; importance of work at Port Chicago; liberty day; mourning deaths from explosion; reenlistment and Korean War service of; return to Port Chicago after blast

  Small, Joseph “Joe”; accidental explosion, danger of; assignment after boot camp, expectation about; Camp Shoemaker brig; CCC experience of; conversation with Delucchi about prison barge; court-martial witness testimony about; daily activities for prisoners; death of; defense strategy; early life of; explosion and damage description; feelings about handling explosives; feelings about importance of decision; feelings about Navy experience; frayed nerves of sailors; Great Lakes training center experience; handling and loading explosives; injuries to sailors from explosion; leadership abilities and role of; liberty days; life after leaving the Navy; lights out activities; morning routine for; mutiny, understanding of; mutiny role of; opinion about Delucchi; pace of loading duties; pardons and overturning conviction, feelings about; path to Navy of; petty officer promotion; prison barge; refusal of loading duties at Mare Island; release from prison and return to active duty; respect for and opinions about; return to barracks after shift; tensions and friendships between black and white sailors; training to handle explosives; transfer to Camp Shoemaker; transfer to Mare Island; verdict and sentencing; winch operations; Wright meeting with

  Soublet, Morris

  Stubblefield, Edward

  T

  Terminal Island Naval Disciplinary Barracks

  Tobin, James

  Tobin, Joseph

  Trimmingham, Rupert

  Truman, Harry

  Tuskegee Air Field and training base

  V

  Veltmann, Gerald; closing arguments; court-martial defense assignment; cross-examination testimony; defense strategy and testimony; rigging of court-martial

  W

  Waldrop, Edward

  Washington, George

  West Virginia

  Williams, Albert, Jr.

  World War I

  World War II: declaration of war against US; end of; Pearl Harbor attack; surrender of Japan; US entrance into

  Wright, Carleton; appeal of verdict; explosion, comments to press about; fear by black sailors; mutiny and refusal to obey orders; Navy policy toward black sailors; sentencing following court-martial; Small meeting with

  For Robert Allen, who has done so much to keep this story alive

  Text copyright © 2014 by Steve Sheinkin

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  The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:

  Sheinkin, Steve.

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

  pages cm

  Includes bibliographical references and index.

  ISBN 978-1-59643-796-8 (hardcover: alk. paper)—

  ISBN 978-1-59643-983-2 (ebook)

  1. World War, 1939–1945—Participation, African American—Juvenile literature. 2. Port Chicago Mutiny, Port Chicago, Calif., 1944—Juvenile literature. 3. Port Chicago Mutiny Trial, San Francisco, Calif., 1944—Juvenile literature. 4. United States. Navy—African Americans—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. 5. African American sailors—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. 6. African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century—Juvenile literature. I. Title.

  D810.N4S44 2013

  940.54'5308996073079463—dc23

  2013013452

  eISBN 9781596439832

  First hardcover edition, 2014

  eBook edition, January 2014