Calif. man, 97, is one of about 200 living members of the first Black Marines
Richard Davis keeps his replica Congressional Gold Medal in a glass case that his wife had specially made to hold the award.
Source: fredericknewspost.com
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California veteran, at 97, is one of about 200 living members of the first Black Marines
Richard Davis, 97, of Sacramento is one of around 200 people left from roughly 23,000 who trained at the segregated Montford Point Marine camp in North Carolina between 1942 and 1949.
Source: stripes.com
The Marines were last to integrate. Here are the stories of the first Black recruits
80 years after the Montford Point Camp was established to train enlisted African Americans, relatives and other Marines fight to document their contributions before it’s too late.
Source: nationalgeographic.com