Word: danang
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight between black and white Marines at a tank battalion base near Danang almost ended disastrously when a dozen black Marines in black shirts and gloves showed up armed with rifles and grenades to help another black who was being beaten by whites...
When Martin Luther King was murdered, whites burned crosses at Cam Ranh Bay and flew Confederate flags over bases at Danang. After appearing on the cover of Time for the story of "The Negro in Vietnam," Army Airborne Sgt. Clide Brown found a cross burning outside his tent...
...rear areas black soldiers, attracted by common music, language or hate, live when they can in all black hootches, like "The Little Ghetto" in Danang, "Hekelu" in Chu Lai, and "Hootch 8" in Cam Ranh Bay. On the walls, white pinups have been replaced by black ones; one hootch sports more than 500 such photographs. "I don't want no stringy haired beast broad with 'hidden beauty' on my wall," said one black Marine at the Little Ghetto. "Black is beauty...
...Danang, black Marines have designed a flag for black soldiers in Vietnam. A red background symbolizes blood shed by blacks in the war and in race conflict in America. A black foreground represents the face of black culture. At the center are crossed spears and shield, meaning "violence if necessary," surrounded by a wreath, symbolizing "peace if possible." The flag bears a legend in Swahili, meaning "My fear...
...anniversary of King's death, the Marine command supplied food and soft drinks for 300 black soldiers and Marines. The demonstration turned into a picnic and passed without incident. Heggs, on his own time and theirs, taught black history to black and white airmen, soldiers and sailors in the Danang area. At Tan My and Bien Hoa, black sailors and airmen meet regularly to plan black culture events and discuss their mutual problems...