Survivor : the shipwreck that changed a life

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    Battery Radio

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    Brookes, Chris

    Summary:

    The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who survived one was black. The rescuers, never having seen a black man before, tried to scrub his skin clean and white. This is a story about growing up with fear in Klan-dominated Georgia, enlisting in a segregated navy, facing death in the icy North Atlantic, and a rescue which galvanised a man to fight racial discrimination.

    Genre: Canadian nonfiction, True adventure stories, History
    Original Publisher: St. John's, Newfoundland , Battery Radio
    Language(s): English

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Battery Radio

Brookes, Chris

Abstract

The remarkable story of Lanier Phillips and the shipwreck that changed his life. On February 18, 1942 the US Navy destroyer Truxton was shipwrecked off Newfoundland. 110 men died; of the 46 who survived one was black. The rescuers, never having seen a black man before, tried to scrub his skin clean and white. This is a story about growing up with fear in Klan-dominated Georgia, enlisting in a segregated navy, facing death in the icy North Atlantic, and a rescue which galvanised a man to fight racial discrimination.

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Canadian nonfiction
True adventure stories
History
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St. John's, Newfoundland

Battery Radio

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