@ Busboys and Poets Brookland: Vincent J. Intondi - African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement

Some of the first voices raised against the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima were those of African Americans. Among other things, these activists wanted to know why such vast resources were poured into new and deadlier weapons when so many American communities needed shoring up. Intondi, director of research at American University’s Nuclear Studies Institute, looks at figures ranging from Langston Hughes to Martin Luther King to President Obama in this groundbreaking study situating black American protest against atomic weapons within the wider struggle for civil rights. (Stanford)