Black America, Vietnam and the fight for full citizenship

David M. Shribman: From Jim Crow to Vietnam

For Wil Haygood, the Black struggle in America and the Vietnam War long have had a strong pull. He was born to be a writer but, what is more, he was born...

Shribman: Black Americans were fighting 2 wars

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood heroes — a young man who one day quietly slipped off to war. He went to college in Oxford, Ohio, where eight years earlier the legendary civil rights figure John L…

National Perspective: Fighting two wars

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Alabama, the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where within 30 yards of his house six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood heroes — a young man who one day quietly slipped off to war. He went to college in Oxford, Ohio, where eight years earlier the legendary civil rights fig…

Black America, Vietnam and the fight for full citizenship

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Ala., the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act.

Shribman: Fighting two wars

His grandparents and mother were born in Selma, Alabama, the site of the violence of the 1965 civil rights march that led to the Voting Rights Act. He grew up in Columbus, Ohio, where, within 30 yards of his house, six Black active-duty soldiers went off to Vietnam, including one of his childhood heroes