The Marines of Montford Point : America's First Black Marines /

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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, a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McLaurin, Melton Alonza
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Marine Corps
United States. > Marine Corps > African Americans > History > 20th century.
Marines.
Law, Politics & Government.
Military & Naval Science.
Race relations
African Americans
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Marine & Naval.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
United States
North Carolina > Camp Lejeune
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire > 20e siecle.
United States > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Camp Lejeune (N.C.) > History > 20th century.
Montford Point Camp (Camp Lejeune, N.C.)
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Home towns
  • Joining up
  • Getting there
  • Training at Montford Point
  • Resisting segregation in the civilian world
  • Fighting segregation in the Corps
  • Combat and service: World War II
  • Combat and service: Korea and Vietnam
  • Legacy
  • Epilogue: interviewee biographies.

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