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African Americans against the bomb : nuclear weapons, colonialism, and the Black freedom movement /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Intondi, Vincent J. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2015]
Colección:Stanford nuclear age series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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."