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.
Series	Stanford nuclear age series
	Stanford nuclear age series.
Note	Online resource; title from PDF title page (Ebsco, viewed Feb. 9, 2015).
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.
Subject	African American political activists -- History -- 20th century.
	African Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
	Antinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Anti-imperialist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	United States -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
	African American political activists. (OCoLC)fst00799307
	African Americans -- Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst00799659
	Anti-imperialist movements. (OCoLC)fst00810343
	Antinuclear movement. (OCoLC)fst00810626
	Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	1900-1999
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form:	Print version: Intondi, Vincent J. African Americans against the bomb 9780804789424 (DLC) 2014031670 (OCoLC)889324086
ISBN	9780804793483 (electronic bk.)
	0804793484 (electronic bk.)

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