Wil Haygood — The War Within a War: The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home
Journalist and author presents untold stories of Black soldiers during Vietnam and the war's lasting impact on civil rights and American society.
Date & Time at 5:00 PM MST
Location Davis Auditorium, Sturm Hall, University of Denver Denver, US
Organizer University of Denver
Why we picked this
The untold parallel story of Vietnam: Black soldiers fighting a war abroad while their communities fought a different war at home.
Wil Haygood is a journalist and biographer whose work consistently finds the stories that mainstream history overlooks. His latest book examines what happened to Black soldiers during the Vietnam War — not just on the battlefield, but in the barracks, in military justice, and back home where the civil rights movement was transforming the country they’d left behind.
This is the Estlow Lecture at DU, one of the College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences’ endowed lecture series. Free and open to the public.