The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights cover

The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Author: Sheinkin, Steve

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.