Mobile, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile native and Marine Corps Veteran Major General Gary Cooper passed away on Saturday. Cooper who is recognized as the first African-American Marine Corps officer to ...

No African Americans were allowed to serve in the Marine ... in general? After students have discussed the images, they will write letters from the perspective of an African American during ...

In just a few years the Navy, Marine Corps ... of African-Americans volunteering to join the Army grew exponentially, enlisting at rates far above their share of the population. In general African ...