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Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael A. Grinston meets one of the Montford Point Marines, SSgt. Ivor Griffin, prior to the Department of Defense’s commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the desegregation of the federal workforce and armed forces at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va., July 26, 2023. President Harry S. Truman signed the landmark civil rights executive orders 9980 and 9981 on July 26, 1948. The Montford Point Marines are the first African Americans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps after President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order establishing the Fair Employment Practices Commission in June 1941. The recruits trained at Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C. from August 26, 1942, until the camp was decommissioned on September 9, 1949. (U.S. Army photo by Bernardo Fuller)
| Date Taken: | 07.26.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 07.27.2023 16:21 |
| Photo ID: | 7938253 |
| VIRIN: | 230726-A-AJ780-1002 |
| Resolution: | 4592x3674 |
| Size: | 11.57 MB |
| Location: | ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, US |
| Web Views: | 118 |
| Downloads: | 6 |
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