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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines
Melton A. McLaurin
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| #404757 in Books | Melton A McLaurin | 2009-09-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x6.25 x.50l,.70 | File type: PDF | 216 pages | The Marines of Montford Point America s First Black Marines||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Important Story|By JAGMAN|The stories in this book are hard to believe but all too real. Sad to think how ignorant our country was and how so many great Americans were treated so bad. The book is a must read for anyone who has a sincere desire to understand the history of our military - specifically the Marine Corps. Not only does it reveal the truth about race relations in|From Booklist|On June 25, 1941, FDR's executive order 8802 allowed, among other things, black men to become U.S. Marines for the first time in American history. The U.S. was then rigidly segregated, particularly i
With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North Carolina. Between 1942 and 1949 (when the base was closed as a result of President Truman's 1948 order fully desegregating al...
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