Sixty Years After Integration, Opportunities for Minority Soldiers Abound
By Staff Sgt. Mike Pryor
2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Public Affairs
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – By the time the Army was officially desegregated on July 26, 1948, Joe Murchison was already a proud member of the 82nd Airborne Division.
555th PIR Paratroopers awaiting jump commands.
A year earlier, his all-black Paratrooper unit, the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, [...]
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