Melton McLaurin, Ph.D.
Director, The Marines of Montford Point

Melton McLaurin, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is a native North Carolinian who taught about the American South and race relations for forty years.  His nine books include Celia, A Slave, a New York Times Notable Book, and Separate Pasts, Growing Up White in the Segregated South, winner of the Southern Regional Council's prestigious Lillian Smith Award for Non-fiction, and two works featuring historical photographs.  Although widely published in historical journals, he has long been an advocate of academic historians making their work accessible to the general public.