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Montford Point Marine, Veteran of Two Wars, Dies at 91 Screen shot of a video interview with Robert L. Moore on the day the Montford Point Marines received the Congressional Gold Medal at Camp Pendleton, Calif., August 14, 2012. (U.S. Marine Corps video/Sgt. Eugenio Montanez) 16 Mar 2021 The San Diego Union-Tribune | By Pam Kragen In 1946, Robert L. Moore was stunned to see two Black Marines in uniform walking down the street near his home in North Carolina. Those men were Montford Point Marines, who were the first Black men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Beginning in August 1942, about 20,000 Black men including Moore, who rushed to enlist after seeing the men trained at the segregated Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C. The camp was decommissioned in 1949 when President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. Today, fewer than 400 of these men are believed to ....
Oceanside In 1946, Robert L. Moore was stunned to see two Black Marines in uniform walking down the street near his home in North Carolina. Those men were Montford Point Marines, who were the first Black men to serve in the U.S. Marine Corps. Beginning in August 1942, about 20,000 Black men including Moore, who rushed to enlist after seeing the men trained at the segregated Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, N.C. The camp was decommissioned in 1949 when President Harry Truman desegregated the armed forces. Today, fewer than 400 of these men are believed to survive, and last month their number fell by one more with Moore’s death. ....
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Black UT-Austin faculty discussed hiring across different UT schools while students called for increased funding and the removal of “The Eyes of Texas” during the second day of the State of Black UT event, a three-day discusion regarding inclusion on campus. ....
The Texas Tribune Shifa Rahman, left, and Blaise, who declined to share a last name, hold signs at the base of the William Marsh Rice statue on the campus of Rice University in Houston. Rahman has spent an hour on campus nearly every day since August calling for the removal of the statue. Students of color said they feel most of their calls to eliminate racist symbols from campuses have been ignored or intentionally mired in lengthy, bureaucratic processes intended to delay answers to difficult questions. This summer, students called on the University of Texas at Austin to stop playing the “The Eyes of Texas,” the alma mater song that has historical minstrel show ties. Aggies petitioned Texas A&M University to take down the statue of Lawrence Sullivan “Sul” Ross, a former governor and Confederate general. Students at Rice University demanded removal of the monument of the school founder, William “Willy” Rice, a slave owner. ....