Melton A McLaurin

Melton McLaurin is professor emeritus of history at UNC Wilmington. He is the author of Separate Pasts, Growing Up White in the Segregated South, winner of the Lillian Smith Award; Celia, A Slave, a 1992 New York Times notable book of the year; The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines; and writer/director of the PBS documentary The Marines of Montford Point: Fighting for Freedom.

Melton McLaurin is professor emeritus of history at UNC Wilmington. He is the author of Separate Pasts, Growing Up White in the Segregated South, winner of the Lillian Smith Award; Celia, A Slave, a 1992 New York Times notable book of the year; The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines; and writer/director of the PBS documentary The Marines of Montford Point: Fighting for Freedom. See less