{"id":84238,"date":"2024-08-31T04:44:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T04:44:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/thurgood-marshall-college-fund-mourns-the-loss-of-lt-gen-arthur-j-gregg\/"},"modified":"2024-08-31T04:44:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T04:44:04","slug":"thurgood-marshall-college-fund-mourns-the-loss-of-lt-gen-arthur-j-gregg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/thurgood-marshall-college-fund-mourns-the-loss-of-lt-gen-arthur-j-gregg\/","title":{"rendered":"Thurgood Marshall College Fund mourns the loss of Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Washington, D.C., Aug. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The following is a statement from Thurgood Marshall College Fund<\/a> (TMCF) President & CEO Dr. Harry L. Williams<\/a>:<\/p>\n

My colleagues and I at Thurgood Marshall College Fund mourn the loss of former board member and trailblazer for Black Americans in the military, Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg. He was a longtime supporter of TMCF and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).<\/p>\n

Gen. Gregg retired as the highest-ranking Black officer in the U.S. military in 1981 and his impact still reverberates, as a fort named after a Confederate general was recently renamed in his honor (Fort Gregg-Adams in Virginia). He bore witness to desegregation in the military, which was slow to non-existent at the start in 1948. Despite having to give up his interest in medical science because of limitations imposed on Black soldiers, Gen. Gregg found a new niche and became the first Black brigadier general in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in 1972. He later became the first Black lieutenant general in the Army.<\/p>\n

Gen. Gregg was also present for a pivotal time in TMCF\u2019s history: when it merged with Opportunity Funding Corporation<\/a> in 2013. He has been a fixture at TMCF and held a deep commitment to the HBCU community.<\/p>\n

We share in our grief with his family and friends and honor his legacy of service, dedication and making new paths for Black Americans in the military.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington, D.C., Aug. 30, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The following is a statement from Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) President & CEO Dr. Harry L. Williams: My colleagues and I at Thurgood Marshall College Fund mourn the loss of former board member and trailblazer for Black Americans in the military, Lt. Gen. Arthur J. Gregg. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ml.globenewswire.com\/Resource\/Download\/53de25c9-6022-4f90-a222-92643c8edded","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-globenewswire"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t