The Negro man said: 'Why should we fight for a country that has never fought for us?' One said, 'Why are we always first citizens on the battlefield and second class citizens at home?' One man said 'We should fight for free elections in Mississippi and Alabama, not in Viet Nam.' Some Negroes are worried because so many of us suffer from the war.

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Page 4 of Vietnam, copyright © 1967 by Julian Bond. Written by Julian Bond and illustrated by T.G. Lewis.