How is the broadway musical, “Newsies” considered historically based fiction?

NEWSIES is inspired by the real-life Newsboys' Strike of 1899, when newsboys Kid Blink and David Simons led a band of orphan and runaway children on a two-week-long action against newspaper publishers Pulitzer and Hearst. It Started With Some Kids… NEWSIES is based on the real-life Newsboys' Strike of 1899.

Explanation:

Historically, the musical is very accurate. It carefully chronicles the two-week-long 1899 newsboy (the kids were aged about 10 to 17) strike against the papers of Pulitzer, Hearst and others.

Although Jack Kelly is a fictional character, the story of the Newsies was a real event that changed the course of history from 1884 to 1899. The inspiration for Newsies was based off of the 1899 Newsboy strike, which targeted one of the biggest newspaper name is New York, Joseph Pulitzer's The New York World.