There are only 20,000 stars on the monument, one for every Montford Point Marine that was believed to have served in World War II.

12News is remembering the Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans to enlist in the Marines in WWII, and showing one Valley family's connection to them. Calls Mount Against Stephen ...

He is one of the original Montford Point Marines who were among the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corp. There were about twenty thousand of these trailblazing ...

Veterans with the Montford Point Marine Association met an enthusiastic crowd of students at Tuckaseegee Elementary on Feb. 21 to share a story they say is at the heart of American history — but ...