Cpl George Johnson, 101-Years-Old Montford Point Marine, Survived WWII, President FDR, Jim Crow, and A Host of Segregationists Generals.
Black History (American History) Little Known Fact. Days Of Infamy. The Montford Pointers. They are the first African-Americans to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps, the last bastion of military segregationists and Jim Crow-ism. In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) issued an Executive Order that outlawed discriminatory hiring practices for government agencies and banned …