The First Black Marines: An Oral History is a graphic history written by Trevor R. Getz, Robert Willis, and Joseph H. Geeter III. The book is based on interviews with some of the first Black Marines, in which they shared their experiences of joining the Marines and training at Camp Montford Point in Jacksonville, North Carolina during the Jim Crow era, and of serving in World War II and beyond.
The First Black Marines is the latest title published in the Oxford University Press Graphic History Series. Find out more about it at the publisher's website, or visit the book's own website at https://www.firstblackmarines.org/ where you can also watch the interviews with the veterans whose stories became the graphic history.
