Park Forest, IL–(ENEWSPF)– A stately Ed Fizer, Park Forest resident, one of the first African-American Marines (ret.), and member of the Montford Point Marine Association, shares his perspective on what it was like to break the color barrier in the United States Marines.
“In 1942,” Fizer says, “right after the Pearl Harbor incident, the President of the United States, Franklin Deleanor Roosevelt, decided, through advice from Congress and others, to sign an executive order…
