Abstract:
A black riot, recorded with journalistic care, takes place at an Army post in Vietnam. Not infrequently in that winless war, low-ranking drafted black soldiers, with surprising leadership from their own ranks, indeed rioted against their predominantly white officers. Unfathomably, the American media neglected or refrained from posting blazing headlines on these strange events

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