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Disadvantaged Black Vietnam Era Veterans in DC: First in War, Last in the Hearts of their Countrymen, 1970. (Box 28, Folder 55)

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This folder contains materials created/collected by the United States Veterans Administration Social Work Service. The materials reflect the efforts of the United States Veterans Administration Social Work Service to develop a program of social services in the Veterans Aministration and to assist returning veterans. During the twenty years after World War II, services to veterans were expanded to include out-patient care, foster home care, trial visits, and increased work with the blind chronic and veterans with tuberculosis and other chronic illnesses. The Veterans Administration Social Work Service also provided community and family counselling and education programs to improve conditions for veterans. The materials in this folder relate to work with African American veterans of the Vietnam war.
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  1. African American Veterans
  2. African Americans
  3. United States
  4. United States. Veterans Administration. Social Work Service
  5. Veterans
  6. Vietnam War, 1961 1975

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