Commons history.org Breaking the Silence: (Military) Were 50 black sailors wrongly convicted of mutiny after a 1944 explosion that killed 320 men? Some of them say yes–and they want their names cleared. BY JOHN BOUDREAU nytimes SAN FRANCISCO — On the night of July 17, 1944, Seaman 1st Class Robert Routh settled into his top […]

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