James Capers Jr. was born during the Jim Crow era to a family of sharecroppers in August 1937. In 1956, he enlisted in the Marine Corps and went boot camp at
On Nov. 28, Conley Monk Jr., a Black veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) seeking redress for harm caused by longstanding racial disparities in veterans’ benefits programs.