The Montford Point Marine Association Chapter Two, on the 7000 block of South Vincennes, is a veterans organization whose founding members were part of the first segregated unit of Marines during WWII. These Leathernecks were similar in importance to the Tuskegee Airmen but remain much less known. Though MPMA has opened membership to honorably discharged veterans of all races, the local chapter currently has only 35 members, down from a high of more than 150 decades ago. The current MPMA veteran’s center was purchased in 1984 after a fire destroyed its location on 75th Street in 1983. Today it is run by a handful of volunteer members, led by president Sharon Stokes-Parry.
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