Book ID: CBB001213735

Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America (2013)

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Foertsch, Jacqueline (Author)


Vanderbilt University Press


Publication Date: 2013
Physical Details: viii + 251 pp.; ill.
Language: English

"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.

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Review Christopher A. Huff (2015) Review of "Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America". Journal of Southern History (pp. 240-241). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Berney, Barbara
Dempsey, Ron
Ellen C. Scott
Burrows, Vanessa
Kornweibel, Theodore, Jr.
Doyle, Dennis A.
Concepts
African Americans
African Americans and science
Technology and race
Science and race
Civil rights
Women and technology
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
United States
North America
Central America
Alabama (U.S.)
Africa
Institutions
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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