The civil rights and anti--Vietnam battle routine have been the 2 maximum protests of twentieth-century the United States. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took priority over civil rights laws, which had ruled White condo and congressional realization through the first 1/2 the last decade. the 2 concerns grew to become intertwined on January 6, 1966, while the coed Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) grew to become the 1st civil rights association to officially oppose the conflict, protesting the injustice of drafting African americans to struggle for the liberty of the South Vietnamese humans once they have been nonetheless denied uncomplicated freedoms at home.

Selma to Saigon explores the influence of the Vietnam conflict at the nationwide civil rights circulation. sooner than the conflict won frequent cognizance, the recent Left, the SNCC, and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) labored jointly to create a biracial alliance with the capability to make major political and social earnings in Washington. rivalry over the warfare, besides the fact that, exacerbated preexisting generational and ideological tensions that undermined the coalition, and Lucks analyzes the explanations and outcomes of this disintegration.

This strong narrative illuminates the consequences of the Vietnam battle at the lives of leaders reminiscent of Whitney younger Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Roy Wilkins, Bayard Rustin, and Martin Luther King Jr., in addition to different activists who confronted the specter of the army draft besides race-related discrimination and violence. offering new insights into the evolution of the civil rights circulation, this ebook fills an important hole within the literature approximately some of the most tumultuous sessions in American history.