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

"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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Main Author: Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2013]
Subjects:
African Americans > Politics and government > 20th century.
Atomic bomb > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century.
Antinuclear movement > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Intellectual life > 20th century.
African American political activists > Biography.
African American intellectuals > Biography.
Atomic bomb in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
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