THE MARINES OF MONTFORD POINT

America's First Black Marines
by Melton A. McLaurin

The companion book to the American Public Television documentary

Click on a link to read excerpts from The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines published by The University of North Carolina Press

David Dinkins
from the chapter Joining Up

Joseph Carpenter (part one)
from the chapter Segregation in the Civilian World

Joseph Carpenter (part two)
from the chapter Segregation in the Civilian World

Roland Durden
from the chapter Segregation in the Corps

Steven Robinson
from the chapter World War II

Archibald Mosley
from the chapter World War II

Thomas Cork
from the chapter Korea and VietNam

Reuben McNair
from the chapter Legacy

 

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Both the film and the book are based on more than forty-six hours of taped interviews with sixty Montford Point veterans. The film...uses thirty-five minutes of those interviews. The book...provides about five hours of the very best material from the interviews.

   --Melton A. McLaurin, from the author interview