That African American men were dying for the country but still treated as second-class citizens.
African Americans
More likely than others to serve in combat positions
The americans didnt like the Lai Massacre which involved unarmed civillians in Vietnam getting killed by American soldiers The number of american soldiers getting killed was growing which made them doubt their leadership Some americans didnt agree with the reasons the leadership used to justify the war with
A total of 58,168 American soldiers died in Vietnam during the Vietnam War!!
Racial strife was extremely high during that time period (Black Panthers, etc.). This trouble was apparent in Vietnam as well as Europe and the US.
African Americans were officially integrated into the US armed forces by President Harry Truman in 1947.
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See website: Statistics About the Vietnam War.
shunned the soldiers
1973
The Americans used a process called Vietnamization to pull their troops out of Vietnam. South Vietnamese soldiers slowly took over the jobs of American soldiers in Vietnam in order to get troops out without causing much of a dramatic change.
The soldiers there kind of stayed and married women there and they gave birth to vietnam-americans.
Jimmy C. Cameron has written: 'The water boy' -- subject(s): African American Participation, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Family, African American families, American Personal narratives, Biography, African Americans, Disabled veterans, African American soldiers
African Americans
African Americans
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.
More likely than others to serve in combat positions