Prof Presents Paper on Racial Tensions and the Armed Forces in Vietnam

UC Clermont College’s Associate Professor of History James Westheider presented at the “Soul Soldiers: African-Americans and the Vietnam Era Symposium,” held at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh this spring.

“My topic was entitled 'Going to Mess up Some Beasts Tonight: The Outbreak of Racial Violence in the Armed Forces,’ and focused on the racial violence which plagued the armed forces during the later stages of the Vietnam War,” said Westheider, who also is the interim chair of the humanities division. 

The symposium was in conjunction with the Soul Soldiers Exhibit at the Heinz Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution, and featured the leading names in African-American Vietnam studies.