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African Americans played a prominent role in the Vietnam War.The Vietnam War was the first American war in which Black and White troops were not formally segregated, and even saw significant growth in the number of African Americans engaged in battlefield combat, [1] though some de facto segregation still occurred.
This category is for African American civilians and soldiers during the Vietnam War, as well as for battles and events that featured or significantly impacted African Americans, black regiments and military organizations, and similar articles.
Milton Lee Olive III (November 7, 1946 – October 22, 1965) was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of America's highest military decoration — the Medal of Honor — for his heroic action in the Vietnam War, when, at the age of 18, Olive sacrificed his life to save others by falling on a grenade.
Geoffrey Wawro was invited to speak at LSU Shreveport about his newest book, The Vietnam War: A Military History. “On any given day there were 50 to 70,000 troops in combat. Those guys had a ...
The history of African Americans in the U.S. Civil War is marked by 186,097 (7,122 officers, 178,975 enlisted) [26] African-American men, comprising 163 units, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War, and many more African Americans served in the Union Navy. Both free African Americans and runaway slaves joined the fight.
However, despite some discrimination controversies, the Vietnam War was considered to be the first American war in which the U.S. military was fully integrated and at one point saw African Americans consist of 23% of the war's battlefield combat troops, while consisting of only 16.3% of the draft population. [41]
African Americans suffered disproportionately high casualty rates during the Vietnam War. In 1965, despite comprising only 11% of the total U.S. population, African Americans constituted 14.1% of combat deaths in Vietnam.
At the beginning of the war, some African Americans did not want to join the war opposition movement because of their loyalty to President Johnson for pushing the Civil Rights legislation, but soon the escalating violence of the war and the perceived social injustice of the draft propelled involvement in antiwar groups. [24]