In “Until the Last Gun Is Silent” the Dartmouth College historian Matthew F. Delmont follows this trend, intertwining accounts of two notable Black Americans from the period: the civil rights and peace activist Coretta Scott King and the Vietnam veteran Dwight “Skip” Johnson, a Medal of Honor recipient. Though Delmont’s reasons for pairing these two particular figures (who never met) aren’t entirely clear, their disparate stories underscore the variousness of the era’s African American experience.