Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prove his manhood-perhaps as a corrective to the matriarchal dominance of the Negro ghetto back home-or to save Viet Nam for a government in Saigon about which he himself is cynical. Mostly, though, he fights for the dignity of the Negro, to shatter the stereotypes of racial inferiority, to win the judgment of noncoms and officers of whatever color: "He's got the tickets...
...later generation because of his service with Negro troops.) In World Wars I and II, some of the luster was lost with reports of the sometimes cowardly performance of the Negro 92nd and 93rd Divisions, and with the rioting by off-duty Negro soldiers that accompanied a rise in racial tensions...
...Viet Nam experience should pay high dividends in reshaping white Americans' attitudes toward social justice and integration; it has already given some 50,000 Negroes a sense of self-confidence and a commensurate demand for deeper participation in American society. "If anybody slights one of my soldiers for racial reasons when he gets home," says Glide Brown's commanding officer, Brigadier General John R. Deane, "I expect that soldier's going to get madder than hell...
...same time, the Federal Government is moving to eradicate some of the racial injustices that still exist back home. Last
Coop officials have denied any racial discrimination by their employment office. They say the only reason for the low number of Negro employees is a relative lack of Negro job applicants. They have recently begun a campaign--including advertising in Roxbury newspapers--to recruit more Negro job-seekers...