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

from marshapetry

Excellent! Highly recommend if you like history, or even just like learning about how we (USA) treated African Americans in WWII days. It's an amazing story, one I hope we never ever repeat; and yet, today's world is much the same. Ferguson, Freddie Gray... and Port Chicago 50 shows how little ha...

from nbmars

Once again the multiple award-winning author Steve Sheinkin excels at reporting an important (but not widely known) moment in history in a format friendly to younger readers as well as to adults. In this case, the moment he records changed the course of race relations in the U.S. Port Chicago was...

from brangwinn

I'm so glad Steve Sheinkin left textbook writing to become a non-fiction book author. He seeks out the unknown. His writing is for upper elementary and middle school students but every adult I've shared his writing with have enjoyed the books. This book looks at black sailors during World War II ...

from Rosa.Mill

Wow. I had heard references to this event but had never had anyone put it in context for me. While not as dynamic as Steve Sheinkin's Bomb he does an amazing job explaining the actions and behaviors that most likely led to the tragedy and how it affected the Navy's policy of segregation in World ...

from Jadedog13

This book tells the true story of segregation in the Navy during World War II. African Americans who joined the Navy to serve their country were not allowed to serve on ships. People thought they weren't smart or brave enough. But only the black men were given the job of loading ammunition onto t...