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The Port Chicago 50 Summary

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Steve Sheinkin's "The Port Chicago 50" exposes harsh stories of segregation and racism in America back in the 1940's. Racism took place in a time when the U.S. already had abolished slavery, but there was still that feeling that African Americans were subordinate compared to the whites. In this book he is principally talking about the explosion of The Port of Chicago 50 that completely obliterated the port killing many black sailors. This was caused by mishandling of ammo and explosives by the African-American sailors. This was a great illustration of racism and how blacks were inferior to the whites. After the explosion there was a trial to find out what actually happened in Port Chicago 50.They decided that black sailors were the cause of
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