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Bookmark or Share- Black Marines who served on racially segregated Montford ...In the 1940s about 20,000 men trained on racially segregated Montford Point in North Carolina. Some of the 300 surviving Marines recently returned for the reopening of a restored museum...
- Calvin and Clarence Curtis: Montford Point MarinesMontford Point was the U.S. Marine Corps' reluctant answer to Executive Order 8802, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 25, 1941. In EO8802, the president declared that all branches of the military, without exception, must admit African Americans to their ranks.
- Montford Point Marine Association - WikipediaThe Montford Point Marine Association (MPMA) is a nonprofit military veterans' organization, founded to memorialize the legacy of the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps.
- A Contested Legacy: The Men of Montford Point and the Good WarBefore Congress had to intervene in recognizing the Marines of Montford Point, did the Marine Corps miss an opportunity? Did the Marine Corps genuinely want to herald a group of young Black men who could have left a legacy defined by immense courage, discipline, and bravery?
- National Montford Point Marine Association, Inc. - HomeOur mission is to perpetuate the legacy of the first African Americans who entered the United States Marine Corps from the period of 1942 to 1949, and trained at the segregated training facility, Montford Point Camp, New River, North Carolina.
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