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The Negro in Vietnam
Purnell, Karl H. | July 3, 1967 issue

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This year 15,000 Afro-American GIs, after a twelve-month tour of duty in Vietnam, will return to the U.S. As members of armed forces, many of these soldiers are being given their first taste of integration into a white man's world. The prospect of returning to a society where no commanding officer will enforce rules of fair treatment is stirring a fierce if well-concealed resentment among Vietnams Afro-American soldiers. The extraordinary irony of fighting for the freedom of an Asian country they had never heard of, while being denied freedom at home, is certain to add new and explosive fuel to the current revolution of Afro-Americans who are rejecting principles of nonviolence.

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AFRICAN Americans; SOLDIERS -- United States; AUTONOMY (Political science); REVOLUTIONS; VIETNAM; UNITED States
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