Fridays: Book Club: African Americans Against the Bomb, with Vincent Intondi
Fridays, Feb 3-Feb 24 @ 2-3 pm EST via Zoom [Fridays: Feb 3, 10, 17, 24]
In February 2023 World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of African Americans Against the Bomb with the author Vincent Intondi as part of a small group WBW book club limited to a group of 18 participants. WBW will buy each participant an electronic version of the book (a Kindle, a Nook, or a Google Play version). We’ll let you know which parts of the book will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the discussions.
About the Book: Well before Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke out against nuclear weapons, African Americans were protesting the Bomb. Historians have generally ignored African Americans when studying the anti-nuclear movement, yet they were some of the first citizens to protest Truman’s decision to drop atomic bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Now for the first time, African Americans Against the Bomb tells the compelling story of those Black activists who fought for nuclear disarmament by connecting the nuclear issue with the fight for racial equality.
