African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Stanford nuclear age series.
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Full text (Emmanuel users only) |
| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780804793483 0804793484 0804792755 9780804792752 0804789428 9780804789424 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed February 9, 2015). |