The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin

Before Jackie Robinson and Rosa Parks, before Brown vs the Board of Education of Topeka, there was Port Chicago. This is gripping nonfiction about a WWII incident when 50 sailors — most of them still teenagers — protested unfair treatment by the Navy after an explosion on an ammunition loading dock, and were charged with mutiny.


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Non-Fiction, Social Justice for Grade(s) 8

The Port Chicago 50 by Steve Sheinkin (Non-Fiction nonfiction socialjustice for Grade/s8)