Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
6.7
Points
6.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
33632
Points per Word
0.000178
Page Count
200
Points per Page
0.03
Description
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.