Montford Point

Historical marker location:

Jacksonville, North Carolina

( Marker is at the intersection of Lejeune Boulevard (State Highway 24) and Montford Landing Road, on the right when traveling east on Lejeune Boulevard.)

Marker installed: 2001

In the 1960s, North Carolina was a center of the civil rights movement, with Greensboro being the site of the first sit-in protests in the country.