Join Project Narrative, the Department of African American and African Studies, and the Department of History for a hybrid event with Wil Haygood!
Award-winning historian and journalist Wil Haygood spent more than four years piecing together the story of what happened when America launched its war in Vietnam amidst historic racial clashes back in America. Black soldiers - fighting in their nation’s first fully racially integrated war - quickly came to realize they were fighting a war within a war - the battles in Vietnam and the sociopolitical war raging stateside. Through the prism of their lives - and others such as President Lyndon Johnson, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., singer Marvin Gaye, Agent Orange activist Maude deVictor - Haygood reveals the tragedies and triumphs, the honor and hypocrisies, the courage and the cowardice that shaped an era and whose repercussions resonate today.