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The song not only shows the social inequality African American's faced during the Civil Rights movement but also the role of African Americans during the Vietnam War. Also, the image shows how African Americans are being sent to a war from a country that doesn't even grant them basic human rights, shows the anti-war effort, and social issues in the country. The image allows several different concepts to be displayed in order to send a message to the viewer. All of these concepts are brought up in the song making it a good center piece for the overall issues occurring during that time.

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Bob Dylan, pictured, is shown playing in front of a group of African Americans. As established before, the song brings upon the issue of the Civil Rights movement. With that, Bob Dylan played a big role advocating for African American rights. This image not only shows the Civil Rights effort as a whole but with Bob Dylan himself.

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Bob Dylan, an American singer would grow to be an influential figure in music as well as social and political issues in the United States. Throughout his career, he was able to write and compose several songs regarding different societal issues in the United States. Some of these songs include, 'Blowin in The Wind', 'Masters of War,' 'Oxford Town,' and several other songs. His journey into protest music began when he met a girl names Suzie Rotolo who was a worker as a secretary at the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) office. She began to inform Dylan of current Civil Right's protests and information which then led to his journey in protest music. Dylan's work didn't just revolve around racial inequality, he would continue to write music and raise money for different causes such as hunger for Ethiopia and Bangladesh and the Farm Aid. Dylan's impact on music and society would forever inspire and encourage positive outcomes for others.

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The image show's what was known as the 'Working Class War.' With the draft, the people who were most likely to be picked and sent were middle to lower class citizens since higher class citizens could find ways out of it. This highlights the idea of the concept of war itself and social equality in the United States. The Vietnam War was already an extremely unfavorable one, and other factors including social inequality and the draft, as shown in the song, just escalated the anger.

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'Yes, and how many years can some people exist, Before they're allowed to be free?'

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'Yes, and how many years can some people exist, Before they're allowed to be free?'

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Not only was this time period dealing with the Vietnam war, but this was also in the midst of the Civil Rights era in the United States. Bob Dylan was an advocate for African American rights and these lyrics reflect on the mistreatment of those people in the United States. But not only was racial injustice present in the every day of lives of African Americans but it also played a big toll on the Vietnam war. The Vietnam War was the had the most amount of African Americans to ever serve in the war. So it was seen as very ironic that so many African Americans were being drafted and sent to Vietnam to help fight for freedom for another country when they weren't even getting it in their own. The purpose of the lyric is to address the notion that African Americans are just as equal as anyone else, and the overly stressed ideas of segregation and racial inequality was restricting them from being free- that exact idea and goal the US constantly idolizes and pushes for in other countries.

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'Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died?'

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'Yes, and how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died?'

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Looking beyond the simple written meaning of the lyrics, deeper concepts within the Vietnam war are spotlighted. At this time in the Vietnam war, thousands of people in the United States are being deployed to Vietnam with a large amount also dying. By 1962, which was when the song was written and produced, there were 53 recorded US Soldier deaths and about 11,300 deployed in Vietnam. This further brings and connects with the concept of the hawks and doves. With the doves being the high majority of the United States that disapproved the involvement of the United States in the Vietnam war as well as deploying troops there, as the number of casualties and injuries began to continue, the US involvement in a civil war that wasn't there's upset many Americans. The 'working class war' as many called it became unfair as the majority of the people getting drafted were the one's who opposed of the war. So this connects to the lyrics because it's simply asking the question of, "how many death's is it until it becomes too many until the government finally diminished involvement with Vietnam?"

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http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/s_z/stevens/africanamer.htm

http://www.amer
icanwarlibrary.com/vietnam/vwatl.htm

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/feature/african-americans-in-combat/

https://www.archives.gov/research/vietnam-war

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-political-bob-dylan

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'Yes, and how many times must cannonballs fly, Before they're forever banned?'

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'Yes, and how many times must cannonballs fly, Before they're forever banned?'

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The outspoken ideas of the Doves perspective is greatly shown in this part of the lyrics. However, although this is from a anti-war perspective, there is a much deeper concept that relates to all international and communal conflicts. What the lyrics want to focus on is the concept of war itself. During the Vietnam War all the anti-war people wanted to do was to end US involvement in Vietnam. This idea can be greatly shown in the growing popularity of former President Richard Nixon (1968) with his ideas on Vietnamization. Vietnamization was the idea of pulling US troops out of Vietnam and turning it over to the A.R.V.N. With this, the idea of how to handle international affairs as such is brought to light within these lyrics. There is never going to be absolute peace and harmony in or between every nation, and the way to combat or handle certain situations can become very difficult. However, is it the best idea to allow countries to put lives at risk in an effort to defend and enforce their own causes? And how many more people are going to have to die in between conflict until it is enough?

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The historical significance of the song was to highlight and broadcast several issues happening within the United States at the time. The song, written by Bob Dylan in 1962, but not produced until 1963 by Dylan himself was able to reach and impact a large crowd due to his popularity. The media and several different public figures themselves had a significant amount of influence on the general public from both perspectives. However in this song, by pointing out specific events happening in the United States such as the Civil Rights movement and the Vietnam War, it became more about that time period itself rather a general notion of peace and equality.