Lisa Rudder reads her late father’s Certificate of Status affectionately Aug. 15, 2015, at the Renaissance Riverview Plaza Hotel in Mobile, Ala. African American Marines attended a segregated training facility known as Montford Point in the early 40s, paving the way toward integration in the Armed Forces, and ultimately, across the United States. ( Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Diamond N. Peden/Released)

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