TY  - BOOK
AU  - Intondi,Vincent J.
TI  - African Americans against the bomb: nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement 
T2  - Stanford nuclear age series
SN  - 9780804793483
AV  - E185 .A375 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - African American political activists
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Antinuclear movement
KW  - United States
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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."; 2; b
N2  - 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 inches
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