About this Event

Join us as we honor the history of African Americans’ military service. Journalist Eugene S. Mosley will highlight the little-known history and legacy of the Montford Point Marines, the first African Americans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, sharing their trials and successes in breaking the military’s racial barriers during World War II.

Mosley is “one of the nation’s most prominent scholars” on the Montford Point Marines. His book, Footprints of the Montford Point Marines, recounts his father’s experience as a Montford Point Marine and the epic strides made in overcoming the racial disparities of the U.S. Marine Corps. Mosley is an archivist and collector for the permanent exhibition of Congressional Gold Medalist Thomas Mosley and the Montford Point Marines at the Harriet Tubman Museum in Macon, Georgia.

Attendees will also have the opportunity to view a Veteran’s Day exhibition in the Reading Room that celebrates the lives and military service of the veterans in Newark’s New London Avenue community and its long military legacy, which spans from the Civil War to today and includes a Montford Point Marine veteran.

The event is held in collaboration with the Friends of School Hill Association, the Air Force and Army ROTC battalions at UD, and local African American community leaders.

This in-person event is free and open to the public. It will not be recorded.

Registration is requested.