The Marines of Montford Point
Thursday, March 08 2007
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When the Marine Corps was forced to integrate in 1942, the new recruits were segregated in an all-black camp adjacent to Camp LeJeune known as Montford Point. Melton McLaurin, UNC-Wilmington Professor Emeritus of History, interviews sixty Montford Point veterans in his new book, “The Marines of Montford Point” (The University of North Carolina Press/2007). He joins host Frank Stasio in the studio to share the stories of the nation’s first black Marines and the integration of the military in the segregated South.
