Description: Further DetailsTitle: African Americans Against the BombCondition: NewSubtitle: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom MovementISBN-10: 0804789428EAN: 9780804789424ISBN: 9780804789424Publisher: Stanford University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 01/07/2015Description: 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 America saw the use of atomic bombs as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950s and Vietnam a decade later. For black leftists in Popular Front groups, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. By expanding traditional research in the history of the nuclear disarmament movement to look at black liberals, clergy, artists, musicians, and civil rights leaders, Intondi reveals the links between the black freedom movement in America and issues of global peace. From Langston Hughes through Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama, African Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of the continuous involvement of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people. Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Weight: 635gAuthor: Vincent J. IntondiGenre: HistoryBook Series: Stanford Nuclear Age SeriesTopic: Society & Culture, Social SciencesRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: African Americans Against the Bomb
Title: African Americans Against the Bomb
Subtitle: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
ISBN-10: 0804789428
EAN: 9780804789424
ISBN: 9780804789424
Release Date: 01/07/2015
Release Year: 2015
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: History
Topic: Social Sciences
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: African Americans Against the Bomb : Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2015
Subject: United States / 20th Century, Civil Rights, Social History, Political Process / Political Advocacy, Political, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, African American
Item Height: 0.6 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 22.4 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author: Vincent J. Intondi
Series: Stanford Nuclear Age Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
