Selma to Saigon: The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) - Hardcover

Lucks, Daniel S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0813145074 ISBN 13: 9780813145075

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2014

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Title: Selma to Saigon( The Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War) <>Binding: Hardcover <>Author: DanielS.Lucks <>Publisher: UniversityPressofKentucky

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"The first full-length treatment of the relationship between the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, this extremely well-researched and very readable book should become the standard in its area." -- James E. Westheider, author of The African American Experience in Vietnam: Brothers In Arms

"While many others have examined the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War, no one, to date, has presented as well-researched and well-written examination of the relationship between these two seminal developments as Lucks does in Selma to Saigon. Lucks convincingly argues that the war forced African Americans to 'choose sides' and that by the end of the 1960s the civil rights movement had become yet another casualty of the fight in Southeast Asia. His work should be of interest to a broad range of readers, from scholars of the civil rights movement to a more general audience of readers interested in the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement, and the 1960s." -- Peter B. Levy, author of Civil War on Race Street: The Civil Rights Movement in Cambridge, Maryland

"At last, a book that acknowledges the enormous impact of the Cold War on the relationship between the civil rights and peace movements. Reading Daniel Lucks's analysis of how the Vietnam War divided the civil rights movement, one cannot help but consider the profound and lasting consequences of those divisions and the lessons we might learn as we continue the struggle for justice and peace." -- Robbie Lieberman, author of The Strangest Dream: Communism, Anticommunism and the U.S. Peace Movement 1945-1963

"In Selma to Saigon, Daniel S. Lucks places civil rights leaders' responses to the Vietnam War firmly within the Cold War context, and explores the tragic repercussions of America's disastrous military intervention in Southeast Asia for African Americans. His important book demonstrates the continuing draw of 'The Sixties' on the historical imagination, as well as that turbulent era's complex legacy." -- Simon Hall, author of Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s

"A pivotal and much-needed examination of the impact of the war in Vietnam on black America and the civil rights movement. Few wars produced as many ironies and paradoxes, as Lucks demonstrates compellingly and thoughtfully in his analysis and through the voices and actions of the participants, one of whom said, 'I had left one war and came back to fight another one.' That spirit resonated among many who survived and returned to a changed and all-too-familiar America." -- Leon F. Litwack, A. F. and May T. Morrison Professor of American History Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

"A superb portrait of a very diffuse movement. Excellent." -- Choice

"[Luck's] analysis of how the civil rights and antiwar movements intertwined and affected each other is breathtaking in its complexity." -- Air Power History

"Daniel S. Lucks makes an important contribution by deconstructing the civil rights movement and revealing the tensions and disagreements among movement leadership and African American citizens over how to respond to the Vietnam War." -- American Historical Review

"Other books on this topic] do not achieve the depth that Lucks does. [...] Based on meticulous research of a wide array of sources, Lucks paints an intense picture of the Vietnam War's effects on the civil rights movement and Lyndon B. Johnson's civil rights activism." -- H-Net Reviews

"Daniel S. Lucks's comprehensive and compelling Selma to Saigon carefully examines how the U.S. war in Vietnam affected the course of the civil rights struggle.

It is the volume's rigorous detail in the telling that makes this work so valuable. Lucks combines a rich store of notable quotations and figures, historiographical insights, prominent tales told elsewhere, and original archival contributions to create a dense chronology that provides illuminating context for the actions taken by movement actors.

For students of these critical social movements and for those seeking to understand the complex political and ideological currents that buoy and sink struggles for social change, Selma to Saigon is an outstanding and welcome resource." -- Journal of American History

About the Author:

Daniel S. Lucks earned his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0813145074
• ISBN 13: 9780813145075
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 394