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History > 20th century > WW2 > USA, World > Photo gallery
93. "Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps started enlisting Negroes on June 1, 1942.
The first class of 1,200 Negro volunteers began their training 3 months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square-mile Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, at New River, NC.
The first Negro to enlist was Howard P. Perry shown here."
N.d. Roger Smith.
208-NP-10KK-1. Pictures of World War II > Pictures of African Americans During World War II US National Archives http://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/ww2-pictures/#usmc
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