Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America / Jacqueline Foertsch

"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-autho...

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Place / Publishing House:Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
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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.
ISBN:9780826519276 (paperback : acidfree paper)
9780826519269
9780826519283
Access:Only OEAW-employees or in the reading room of our library
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Jacqueline Foertsch