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below $3,000, males in unskilled jobs, sub-standard
housing, low educational attainment and inadequate health
facilities.
Three out of Ten Negro families live in sub-
standard housing. A half million Negro families live in
rural areas of the country, including the counties of
Maryland, where education and housing and health standards
are far below the minimum standards of decency.
In 1966, 43 percent of the Negro draftees were
rejected by reason of failure to pass the health and
educational qualifications test.
While the rate of rejection among white draft-
ees was 8 percent, and although Negro citizens comprise 11
percent of the national population, they are 90 percent
of the U. S. Armed Forces in Viet Nam now, and it is
interesting to note that in the first half of 1967, the
first six months of 1967, it had risen to 11 percent,and
15 percent of those who have died in the Viet Nam combat
are Negroes..
These young men have never failed their country
and in our history the Negro soldier has never failed his