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The study will focus on the years 1967 through 1970. The study will also review the exact terms of the draft legislation at the time with a particular focus on the exemptions that were made available. The result of the study will be to show exactly how race and social economic status had an adverse impact on determining whether or not an individual was to be drafted into the Vietnam War.
Key Questions: The key question is to go beyond simply showing that statistically the draft had a larger impact on minorities and low income individuals but to also demonstrate how this makes the draft a de facto discriminatory law. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Sources:
The primary sources that will be used in conducting this research include the military draft legislation and governmental records pertaining to the background information of all military draftees for the aforementioned years.
Approach:
The approach to be taken is primarily subjective and through an analysis of the statistical effect of the law.
Significance:
The significance of the research is that it will show how a federal law was de facto discriminatory and thus, in all likelihood, unconstitutional.
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Goldstein, Donald M., Katherine v. Dillion and J. Michael Wenger. The Vietnam War. London: Brassey's, 1997.
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Sources:
Appy, Christian G. Working-Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1993.
Burgan, Michael. Witness to History: The Vietnam War. Chicago: Heinemann Library, 2004.
Goldstein, Donald M., Katherine v. Dillion and J. Michael Wenger. The Vietnam War. London: Brassey's, 1997.
Herring, George C. America's Longest War: The United States and Vietnam 1950-1975. New York: McGraw Hill, 1996.
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