Publication

2013 - Vanderbilt University Press

Language

English

Word Count

66,000 words, Guess

Page Count

264 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780826519269
  • ISBN-100826519261
  • Better World Books9780826519269
  • Open LibraryOL29664442M

Description

"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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Other Editions

  • Reckoning Day: Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar AmericaVanderbilt University Press2013-01-01

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