16 min

Inspiration and Insight from Legendary Marine Major James Capers Flex Your Freedom with Barb Allen

    • Personal Journals

Major James Capers was born to a family of sharecroppers in South Carolina who escaped to Baltimore, Maryland in the dead of night to escape the days of Jim Crow laws for a better life. Joining the Marines fresh out of high school, Major Capers had no idea that he was paving the road for future Marines, black and white alike.

Major James Capers was born to a family of sharecroppers in South Carolina who escaped to Baltimore, Maryland in the dead of night to escape the days of Jim Crow laws for a better life. Joining the Marines fresh out of high school, Major Capers had no idea that he was paving the road for future Marines, black and white alike.

16 min