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Chronicles of a Two-Front War : Civil Rights and Vietnam in the African American Press /

During the Vietnam War, young African Americans fought to protect the freedoms of Southeast Asians and died in disproportionate numbers compared to their white counterparts. Despite their sacrifices, black Americans were unable to secure equal rights at home, and because the importance of the war ov...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Eldridge, Lawrence Allen, 1937-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: London : University of Missouri Press, 2011.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Bringing the news home
  • Vietnam and the great society: the two-front war
  • Fueling the anger: the draft and black casualties
  • African American opposition to the war in Vietnam
  • Martin Luther King, Jr. and the globalization of black protest
  • "We're with your, chief": the black press and LBJ
  • The black press and Vietnam in the Nixon years
  • Race relations in an integrated military
  • The black press and the Vietnam war.