Posted on Sep 25, 2022

The Marines were last to integrate. Here are the stories of the first Black recruits.

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80 years after the Montford Point Camp was established to train enlisted African Americans, relatives and other Marines fight to document their contributions before it’s too late

The Marines were last to integrate. Here are the stories of the first Black recruits.

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