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![The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines by Melton A. McLaurin](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBNUZWZUE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--6bb5b71f7ed4bda01e75581f13758ce5c256961b/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/The%20Marines%20of%20Montford%20Point-%20America's%20First%20Black%20Marines.jpg)
216 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807861769
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 01 September 2009
Description
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 ba...
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216 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780807861769
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 01 September 2009
Description
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 ba...