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The War Within: Race and Vietnam with Dr. Beth Bailey at the National World War I Museum and Memorial

National World War I Museum and Memorial

On Wednesday, February 26 at 6:30 p.m. the 威尼斯人娱乐场 in partnership with the National World War I Museum and Memorial, will host Dr. Beth Bailey for a lecture titled The War Within: Race and Vietnam. This program will take place at the National World War I Museum and Memorial, 2 Memorial Drive, Kansas City, MO. are requested for this free program.

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 鈥渁 war within the war,鈥� challenging the commonly held axiom that: 鈥渢here鈥檚 only one color and that鈥檚 o.d. (olive drab).鈥� Bailey is director at the Center for Military, War, and Society Studies at the University of Kansas. Her talk will discuss race during the war through the stories of those who lived it. Guests will learn about Major Merritt, who told newspaper reporters that the U.S. Army was a 鈥渃itadel of racism,鈥� about Vietnam鈥檚 Long Binh Jail Riot and of the Army鈥檚 efforts to address mounting racial tensions within its ranks.

This program is offered in conjunction with the exhibition, The Vietnam War: 1945-1975, a traveling exhibition from the New-York Historical Society currently available for viewing at the National World War I Memorial and Museum.