I really would love the knkw te number of.blacks sent to war to the number of whites.
See website: Statistics About the Vietnam War.
African-Americans during the 1960s called Vietnam "the White Man's War"; because the US wanted to stop communism there, but were drafting African-Americans (and all other US males) to fight it.
43,000
About 51000 Americans died in the Vietnam conflict.
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many young men were drafted
About 50,000 African Americans.
Approximately 63,000 men were drafted and about 19,000 of those men served in country in South Vietnam.
Marvin Gaye's brother, Frankie, had been drafted and sent to Vietnam in 1967. Marvin structured many of his songs around his brother and the Vietnam War.
In 1968 40,000 men a month were being inducted into the military in the US.
With the government eliminating poll taxes, it allowed many more to be able to vote.
26 schools named after african americans