LEADER 04632nam 22005775 450 001 9910460512003321 005 20210204022537.0 010 $a0-8047-9348-4 024 7 $a10.1515/9780804793483 035 $a(CKB)3710000000337304 035 $a(EBL)1921012 035 $a(DE-B1597)563637 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780804793483 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1921012 035 $a(OCoLC)1178769651 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000337304 100 $a20200723h20202015 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aAfrican Americans Against the Bomb $eNuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement /$fVincent J. Intondi 210 1$aStanford, CA :$cStanford University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (225 p.) 225 0 $aStanford Nuclear Age Series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8047-8942-8 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$tChapter 1. The Response to the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki --$t2. ?We Will Not Go Quietly into the Night?: Fighting for Peace and Freedom During the McCarthy Era --$t3. ?Links in the Same Chain?: Civil Rights, Anticolonialism, and the Bomb in Africa --$t4. ?Desegregation Not Disintegration?: The Black Freedom Movement, Vietnam, and Nuclear Weapons --$t5. ?From Civil Rights to Human Rights?: African American Activism in the Post-Vietnam Era --$t6. A New START: Nuclear Disarmament in the Age of Obama --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex 330 $aWell before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality. Intondi shows that from early on, blacks in America saw the use of atomic bombs as a racial issue, asking why such enormous resources were being spent building nuclear arms instead of being used to improve impoverished communities. Black activists' fears that race played a role in the decision to deploy atomic bombs only increased when the U.S. threatened to use nuclear weapons in Korea in the 1950's and Vietnam a decade later. For black leftists in Popular Front groups, the nuclear issue was connected to colonialism: the U.S. obtained uranium from the Belgian controlled Congo and the French tested their nuclear weapons in the Sahara. By expanding traditional research in the history of the nuclear disarmament movement to look at black liberals, clergy, artists, musicians, and civil rights leaders, Intondi reveals the links between the black freedom movement in America and issues of global peace. From Langston Hughes through Lorraine Hansberry to President Obama, African Americans Against the Bomb offers an eye-opening account of the continuous involvement of African Americans who recognized that the rise of nuclear weapons was a threat to the civil rights of all people. 410 0$aStanford Nuclear Age Series 606 $aAfrican American political activists -- History -- 20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century 606 $aAnti-imperialist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 606 $aAntinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century 606 $aCivil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aAfrican American political activists -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aAfrican Americans -- Politics and government -- 20th century. 615 4$aAnti-imperialist movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aAntinuclear movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 615 4$aCivil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century. 676 $a323.1196/0730904 700 $aIntondi$b Vincent J.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01042271 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910460512003321 996 $aAfrican Americans Against the Bomb$92466385 997 $aUNINA