The War within the War: Race in Vietnam Beth Bailey

U. S. Army leaders in Vietnam were once proud of their record on race, especially as racial violence escalated back home. But by mid1968 these same leaders, many of them white, were describing race relations as a war within the war, challenging the commonly held axiom that: theres only one color and thats o. d. (olive drab). Join Dr. Beth Bailey, Director, Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas, for a talk that discusses race during the war through the stories of those who lived it. Presented in partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City.