Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War
- ISBN-10
- 0813145090
- ISBN-13
- 9780813145099
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 394
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014-03-19
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Author
- Daniel S. Lucks
Description
In Selma to Saigon Daniel S. Lucks explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Through detailed research and a powerful narrative, Lucks illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as lesser-known Americans in the movement who faced the threat of the military draft as well as racial discrimination and violence.
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