Until the Last Gun Is Silent
April 13 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm CDT
Monday, April 13: Until the Last Gun Is Silent
Historian Matthew Delmont joins Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones to discuss his latest book Until the Last Gun Is Silent: A Story of Patriotism, the Vietnam War, and the Fight to Save America’s Soul, which tells the story of the Vietnam War through lives of Coretta Scott King and Dwight “Skip” Johnson and includes the history of schooling in Detroit, SNCC, Winter Soldier events, the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, the Fort Hood Three, the massacres at Jackson State and Kent State, racism in the military, the Tet Offensive, Rep. Conyers, PTSD, and much more.