'Now, we have Black generals': Montford Point Marine shares his experience with racial segregation
There are thousands of others like him who came up through Camp Montford Point and are eligible for recognition, but the trick is to find them and their families.
Only in 1942 were Black Americans first allowed to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, making it the last branch of the armed forces to integrate. But the mere ability to join the Marines did not mean equality had been achieved. The first Black men to enlist were sent to their own segregated training camp: Montford Point in North Carolina.
What those first Black Marines experienced is not well known; Many left the service and didn’t talk about the experience to
