Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
2013
E185.61 .F64 2013
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Title Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch.
Author Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
ISBN 9780826519276
9780826519269
9780826519283 (electronic book)
Published Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 1 online resource (265 pages)
Call Number E185.61 .F64 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1196/073
Summary "Tells the story of African Americans' response to the atomic threat in the postwar period. Examines the anti-nuclear writing and activism of figures such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Lorraine Hansberry as well as the placement of black characters in white-authored doomsday fiction and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Sidebar : Covering the Bomb in the African American Press
Against the "Starless Midnight of Racism and War" : African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda
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Conclusion: "Don't Drop It, Stop It, Bebop It" : Some Final Notes on Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America.

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