African-Americans made up 12.6% of the American soldiers in Vietnam in the Vietnam War. This was the highest proportion of African Americans to serve in an American war. Subsequently, African-American soldiers increased significantly by the end of the war.
About 7,300 African Americans were killed. About 48,000 European Americans were killed.
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.
Over 50,000 US white males were killed in the Vietnam War.
All personnel were paid according to their rank.
Most Americans were opposed to the Vietnam war by 1967. In the beginning most Americans supported going to war with Vietnam.
The relationships between African Americans and white Americans after the Vietnam War remained strained and continued for many years. Even as of 2013, many racial issues still exist in the United States.
Around 300,000 Americans were wounded in the Vietnam war.
Limit suffrage to a small percentage of African Americans
Herman Graham has written: 'The brothers' Vietnam War' -- subject(s): Vietnam War, 1961-1975, African Americans, Black power
There has been no war fought by or within the United States in which African Americans did not participate, including the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, the Spanish American War, the World Wars, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War, and the wars in Afghanista.
By the end of the war, the total amout of African Americans in the Continental Army Was, 15%
See Statistics about the Vietnam War.
I really would love the knkw te number of.blacks sent to war to the number of whites.
unfairly treated by Americans. hopefully the spread of communism meant that they would be fairly judged in society.
The Americans lost the Vietnam War (1954-1975).
How did the African Americans participate in the Civil War.
Americans were drafted into the Vietnam War in 1965.
African Americans there were in the North did fight in the Civil War. This was because African Americans were fighting against the people who enslaved them.
No americans were not happy
What the newly freed African Americans needed to do what after the war
the Vietnam war against the Americans went for 20 years
the aussies were alies and fought in the Vietnam war with the Americans. (and of course the South Vietnamese - the Americans were paticipants on their side).
There was aproximately 180,000 African Americans who died in the civil war
African-Americans during the Revolutionary War supported the British/Loyalists.