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YEARBOOK FOR THE FIRST BLACK MARINES (MILITARY.) United States Marine Corps. Montford Point, Camp LeJeune. New River, North Carolina. Copious illustrations from photographs. 4to, original raised pictorial blue cloth, extremities lightly rubbed; some slight water-staining to the edges of a few leaves. Philadelphia: Campus Publishing Company, (circa 1943)
On August 18, 1942, Headquarters and Service Battery of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion was activated at Montford Point. The first African-American recruit to arrive at the camp was Howard P. Perry of Charlotte, North Carolina. He arrived August 26th and was later joined by 119 other privates who began recruit training in September. Over the next two years, Montford Point would be the training site for the 51st and 52nd Defense Battalions. From July 1942 through the end of the war, 20,000 black men were trained at Montford Point and inducted into the Marine Corps. But in those days, integration was a relative term. Though black troops would train and be Marines, they would still be kept separate from the white troops at nearby Camp Lejeune. Unless accompanied by a white Marine, they were not allowed to set foot in Camp Lejeune. And even after they were shipped off to battle zones, they served in segregated units.
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