The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
by Sheinkin, Steve
Margaret A. Edwards AwardPublishers Weekly Best BookYALSA Award for Excellence in NF for YouBCCB Blue Ribbon BookSLJ Best BookCarter G. Woodson Award/HonorBoston Globe/Horn Book Award/HonorsWorld War II Era
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AR Book Level
6.7
AR Points
6
Word Count
33,632
Interest Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
163116 EN
About this book
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. The text contains profanity, violence, and racial slurs.