Title African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement / Vincent J. Intondi.

Publication Info.	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Stanford nuclear age series
	Stanford nuclear age series.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	The response to the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- "We will not go quietly into the night" : fighting for peace and freedom during the McCarthy era -- "Links in the same chain" : civil rights, anticolonialism, and the bomb in Africa -- "Desegregation not disintegration" : the Black freedom movement, Vietnam, and nuclear weapons -- "From civil rights to human rights" : African American activism in the post-Vietnam era -- "No more Hiroshimas."
Summary	Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality. Intondi shows that from early on, blacks in.
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Subject	African American political activists -- History -- 20th century.
	African American political activists.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Politics and government.
	Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Antinuclear movement.
	United States.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements.
	Anti-imperialist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Anti-imperialist movements.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1945-1989
	1900-1999
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Intondi, Vincent J. African Americans against the bomb 9780804789424 (DLC) 2014031670 (OCoLC)889324086
ISBN	9780804793483 (electronic book)
	0804793484 (electronic book)
	0804792755
	9780804792752
	0804789428
	9780804789424
	9780804792752
	9780804789424

Title African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement / Vincent J. Intondi.

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