In the 1960s, the United States was defined by the Civil Rights Movement, the Vietnam War, and the counterculture movement. These turning points were transformative for the American people. More specifically, and much unknown to the public, is the undeniable influence of the Vietnam War abroad on the Black resistance movements at home and vice versa. This thesis will comb through first hand accounts and analysis by acclaimed authors to support the core assertion that the Vietnam War exacerbated the Black Power Movement and revealed the ills of American society that seemed to follow across the world. Black soldiers were faced with racist treatment in camps, high death rates, and an unexpected empathy for the Vietnamese being slaughtered. Such circumstances led young Black GIs to be suspended in this state of dissonance, where they struggled to reconcile what they expected military service to be and what it actually was. This work will look into the evolution of Black resistance through the legal lens of cases like Clay v. U.S. It will analyze the wars abroad and on the homefront and how they worked in tandem to redefine Black movements and how the war itself was shaped by them. It will touch on protests and race riots on both ends of the world and reveal how Black identity evolved as the war continued. These claims will be supported by first hand accounts from Black veterans, newspapers, and the draft case of Muhammad Ali.