"Minority Veterans." In Source Material on the Vietnam Era
Veteran. Congress. Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs,
173-236. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1974. Committee Print 26. Part
3: Minority Veterans. As Negro Veterans Come Home - Stabilizing
Force? / U.S. News and World Report. (p. 182-185). (Originally
published in U.S. News and World Report, February 5, 1968.)
SuDoc No.: Y4.V64/4:V67/6 This article also notes the
possibility of armed and angry veterans returning home from
Vietnam. But here too the article takes an optimistic view,
noting several advantages for African-American veterans. For one
thing, most African-Americans who served in Vietnam were better
educated and were more likely to receive a better salary than
their civilian counterparts. New programs were set up to help
veterans find work. Project Transition, one example of these
programs, was instituted to help with veterans' employment needs
by bringing private industry onto military bases to provide
technical training designed for the civilian