African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement

by Vincent Intondi

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804792755
• ISBN13: 9780804792752
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"