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Author:

Intondi, Vincent J., author.

Title:

African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement / Vincent J. Intondi.

Publisher:

Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 207 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

Notes:

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".

Series:

Stanford nuclear age series

ISBN:

0804792755 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804792752 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804789428 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804789424 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)889324086

LCCN:

2014031670

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)