Events

Offered in collaboration with University of Michigan-Dearborn – Student Veterans of America. The diversity, equality, and inclusion lecture/discussion will focus on racial equality in the military and the induction of the first all African American Marine unit, the Montford Point Marines. Established in 1942, the unit’s valor and performance at Peleliu, Iwo Jima, the Chosen Reservoir, Vietnam, and more paved the way for our present integrated armed forces. The keynote speaker of the lecture will be retired Sergeant Major Eugene Owens form the Montford Point Marines Detachment of the Marine Corps League. We will discuss racial issues in the military of the past and present.