Montford Point Marines

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Among the outstanding Marines in the original group of black Marines was Pfc. Walker Manley, formerly an organist of the Christian Church in Raleigh, N.C., and a demonstrator for the Hammond Organ Company, who served as a post organist at Camp Lejeune. In addition to being organist for the Montford Point chapel, he was also an organist for several of the chapels where white enlistees worshiped. Breaking a tradition of 167 years, the U.S. Marine Corps enlisted blacks, June 1, 1942. The first class of 1,200 black volunteers began their training three months later as members of the 51st Composite Defense Battalion at Montford Point, a section of the 200-square-miles Marine Base, Camp Lejeune, N.C. (Photo by Roger Smith)

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