This gripping nonfiction book tells the true story of the Port Chicago 50, a group of Black sailors in the segregated U.S. Navy during World War II. After a massive and deadly explosion at the Port Chicago naval base in 1944, 50 men refused to return to the unsafe loading work, leading to their arrest and trial for mutiny. Their courageous stand against racial injustice and unsafe conditions became a landmark event that helped push the U.S. military toward desegregation and advanced the fight for civil rights.