ABSTRACT
This was the finest time of my youth. It was a continuous adventure. CMTC [Citizens’ Military Training Camp] was a system for developing Army officers, and it was a good system. Unlike ROTC, which in California was for whites only, CMTC was open to blacks. I was at camp [MacArthur, California] with other Negro teenagers. That in itself was good for me because I was exposed for the first time to high quality young black men who had matured in the progressive urban centers of California. These were young men of the highest quality I had ever known. 1
