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  1. Robert Lee Allen (May 29, 1942 – July 10, 2024) was an American activist, writer, and adjunct professor of African-American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. [1]

  2. Jul 22, 2024 · Robert L. Allen, who definitively told the story of 50 Black sailors who were convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny for refusing to continue to load munitions onto cargo ships after explosions...

  3. Jul 19, 2024 · The author is best known for his 1989 book The Port Chicago Mutiny, about a 1944 incident which saw 256 Black sailors unjustly court-martialed and who were recently exonerated.

  4. Jul 22, 2024 · Robert L. Allen, who definitively told the story of 50 Black sailors who were convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny for refusing to continue to load munitions onto cargo ships after explosions had blown apart two ships at a California port during World War II, killing hundreds, died on July 10 at his home in Benecia, Calif. He was 82.

  5. Born to Robert L. Allen, Sr. and Sadie Allen in Atlanta, a city crafted from Reconstruction racism, he attended Morehouse College where his mother was at one time the Dean of Students. He would go on to secure a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of San Francisco.

  6. Jul 23, 2024 · Robert L. Allen, who definitively told the story of 50 Black sailors who were convicted of conspiracy to commit mutiny for refusing to continue to load munitions onto cargo ships after explosions...

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  8. Robert L. Allen, Who Recounted a Naval Mutiny Trial, Dies at 82. He wrote of how 50 Black sailors were court-martialed for refusing to keep loading munitions onto cargo ships in 1944 after explosions had killed hundreds. They were exonerated this month.

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