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 mid-1968 these same leaders, many of them white, were describing race relations as “a war within the war,” challenging the commonly held axiom that: “there’s only one color and that’s 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.