Until the mid-1960s black servicemen did not have the right to engage in command positions. Their brave participation on the battlefield was poorly explained by the personal initiative or a desperate financial statement. The mass attraction of African American soldiers to participate in hostilities was obtained during the American intervention in Vietnam. The proportion of African Americans in the troops deployed in South Vietnam exceeded 20% (Ballantyne, 2018). Unprecedented growth in public tensions caused by the minority’s revolution was manifested in the Armed Forces of the United States.
Among Americans intended for the army, there were many black solders who experienced discrimination. There is a widespread statement that one of the manifestations of racial segregation in the US Army was bigotry at awarding. It refers to the highest military differences between America – honor medals. Many researchers argue that before the early 1990s, no African American was granted this reward. Especially hostile relations were developing between African Americans and southern states (Clayton, 2018). The drama of the situation included many damaging conflicts. They broke out not solely in combat conditions but at military bases between combats.
The growth of the anti-racist and pacifist movements in the United States was reflected in the sentiments of African American fighters for Civil Rights. The statements of the US leaders during the Vietnamese war on the need to eliminate racial segregation in the armed forces were not supported by concrete actions. Special transformations aimed at the complete equation in the rights of African American soldiers were carried out by the US administration in the second half of 1970-1980 Jacques, G. (Jacques. 2021). The civil rights movement has become more global and massive after all unfairness occurred on the battlefield.
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Ballantyne, D.T. (2018). Review of the book The American Civil Rights Movement, 1865–1950: Black Agency and People of Good Will, by Russell Brooker. Journal of Southern History 84(3), 771-773.
Clayton, D. M. (2018). Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement: A Comparative Analysis of Two Social Movements in the United States. Journal of Black Studies, 49(5), 448–480. Web.
Jacques, G. (2021). A new civil rights movement, a new journal. JSTOR. Web.