Selma to Saigon : the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War

The Resource Selma to Saigon : the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War
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Selma to Saigon : the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War
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the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War
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Daniel S. Lucks
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eng
Summary
The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took precedence over civil rights legislation, which had dominated White House and congressional attention during the first half of the decade. The two issues became intertwined on January 6, 1966, when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) became the first civil rights organization to formally oppose the war, protesting the injustice of drafting African Americans to fight for the freedom of the South Vietnamese people when they were still denied basic freedoms at home. This book explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Before the war gained widespread attention, the New Left, the SNCC, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) worked together to create a biracial alliance with the potential to make significant political and social gains in Washington. Contention over the war, however, exacerbated preexisting generational and ideological tensions that undermined the coalition, and here the author analyzes the causes and consequences of this disintegration. This powerful narrative illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on the lives of leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other activists who faced the threat of the military draft along with race-related discrimination and violence. Providing new insights into the evolution of the civil rights movement, this book fills a significant gap in the literature about one of the most tumultuous periods in American history
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DLC
Dewey number
323.1196/0730904
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
E185.615
LC item number
.L82 2014
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century

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