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From WILL - Afternoon Magazine - February 21, 2007

THE MARINES OF MONTFORD POINT: AMERICA’S FIRST BLACK MARINES

With Melton A. McLaurin (Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington)

Categories: Military, Race/Ethnicity
Tags: race-ethnicity, military, african-american

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