Participation in the Vietnam war without doubt heightened black conscienceness and helped politicize every black American as a result of their being made "clearly aware of the paradox of fighting for democracy abroad when they did not have it at home"

www.americansc.org.uk/Online/Vietnam_Civil_Rights.htm

How was the civil rights movement affected by the Vietnam experience?

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