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Selma to Saigon : the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War / Daniel S. Lucks.
LIBRA E185.615 .L82 2014
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lucks, Daniel S., 1962-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Civil rights.
- History.
- Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
- Civil rights movements.
- War and society.
- United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Social aspects--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther.
- Cold War--Social aspects--United States.
- Cold War.
- Social aspects.
- United States--Race relations--History--20th century.
- Race relations.
- War and society--United States--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 366 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 2014.
- Summary:
- Selma to Saigon explores the impact of the Vietnam War on the national civil rights movement. Before the war gained widespread attention, the New Left, SNCC, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) worked together to create biracial alliances in order to promote significant political and social gains in Washington. Contention over the war, however, exacerbated preexisting generational and ideological tensions that undermined the coalition, and Daniel S. Lucks analyzes the causes and consequences of this disintegration. This powerful narrative illuminates the effects of the Vietnam War on the goals of leaders such as Whitney Young Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., as well as other activists who faced the threat of the military draft along with race-related discrimination and violence. Providing new insights into the rise and decline of the civil rights movement, this engrossing study fills a significant gap in the literature about one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The Cold War and the Long Civil Rights Movement
- African Americans and the Long Cold War Thaw, 1954-1965
- Vietnam and Civil Rights : The Great Diversion, 1965
- The Vietnam War and Black Power : The Deepening Divide, 1966
- Dr. King's Painful Dilemma
- The Second Coming of Martin Luther King Jr., 1966-1968
- Moderates and the Vietnam War : All the Way with LBJ.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-346) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Harry E. Humphreys Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780813145075
- 0813145074
- OCLC:
- 858901781
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