https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh en-us 2018-04-24 13:50:04 UTC 2024-10-30 13:10:12 UTC hello@padlet.com jcherisse2001 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/269793426 2018-07-10 02:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/269793426 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389712 He states in the book that anti-nuclear meant anti-American. In terms of communism during the Cold War this was especially important. During WWII how the bomb could’ve been used on Italy or Germany but they went for Japan. Did this have any racial motive? The Civil rights movement played a huge roll not just nationally, but globally. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389712 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389818 The book challenged the idea that nuclear war was closely intertwined with racial relations. The use of a bomb against a non white society fueled the protests. The number of protest groups through the years was astounding. I also did not know Martin Luther King Jr. spoke our against the bomb]]> 2018-11-01 14:34:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389818 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389849 This book challenged the narrative about civil rights and anti nuclear movements being segregated in many ways. It talked about how some civil rights groups focused on denuclearization as a world peace movement. They believed that in order to truly achieve peace at home there has to be peace abroad as well. The motives of both movements were similar in that they were fighting for humanity and human rights. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389849 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389939 African Americans Against the Bomb shows us that the black community was against the atomic bomb from its first usage. Intodi shows us reactions from the Baltimore Afro-American of disbelief. Many blacks believed that the usage of the atomic bomb was a form of racism as it was used on a darker nation (Japan) rather than Germany. This book shows us that the Civil Rights movement began before the 1960s, and that it had international connections with organizations like George Johnson’s BAN. Intondi is arguing that colonialism, racism, and the atomic bomb were connected. This book was surprising as it introduces a topic that I would have never thought to be a racist one, but by examining what Intondi gives in this book you can see that many thought it was]]> 2018-11-01 14:34:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299389939 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390158 A connection is drawn at the very beginning of the book between colonialism, civil rights, and the anti-nuclear movement. Author Vincent Intondi, specifically mentions Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King’s connection to both the anti-nuclear movement and the civil rights fight. He also discusses the influence that Bayard Rustin had on the Sahara Project, and the introduction of some civil rights activist ideas into the movement against the bomb. 
Prior to reading this book, I wasn’t aware of anybody significant movement against nuclear weapons. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:35:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390158 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390239 The author did a wonderful job at portraying the difference and similarities In the two movements. The two movements shared the same core values of ther better of people. The civil right had a main focus on the betterment of African American race. With the two being similar many African American were scarred what it eWorld take away from the specific and betement of the racial tension, and everything they where fighting for though this movement. This book had a huge impact thought the connection of the bomb and poverty, and we see this connection though the civil right movement even thoug many wanted to keep the movements separate]]> 2018-11-01 14:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390239 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390302 Intondi argues that the fight for denuclearization was also the fight for human rights. In fact, he quotes Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren, whom was over the Brown v. Board of Education decision, said while the Brown decision was a step in the right direction towards civil justice, it was not enough. Anti-nuclear war efforts was not a black or white issue, but a human issue. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390302 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390478 The anti-nuclear movement and the civil rights movement were connected due to the risk the bomb posed to all life and specifically the nations of color who were the potential targets of the bomb as well as the exploitation of African countries for the resources to make the bomb. These issues were all connected as a global fight for equality and peace. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299390478 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391061 Intondi stated in the book that each of these movements were fighting for more than rights and freedom for black people but they were battles for peace and human rights altogether. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391061 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391250 The author of the book did a great job showing the parallels between the freedom struggle and the antinuclear movement. Both movements involved protests and organizations to help promote their efforts. I found the idea that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki could be racism related interesting. I had never thought about why we chose to use the bombs on the Japanese rather than Germans or Italians. I also didn't know about the Sahara Project that Bayard Rustin was involved with.]]> 2018-11-01 14:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391250 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391360 2018-11-01 14:37:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391360 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391681 Intondi mentions plenty of organizations such as BAN and WILPF who fought to end the use of nuclear weapons. WILPF was an integrated organization of women who combined the effort to stop the use of nuclear weapons along with fight for civil rights. BAN was created to show how blacks were being affected economically due to budget cuts to fund the nuclear arsenal. Many blacks feared that the next bomb would be dropped on a darker nation such as Africa. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:37:38 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391681 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391899 The author did a great job in comparing and contrasting the two movements. He did a great job explaining the details of the movements like how separate & integration of the two movements.]]> 2018-11-01 14:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299391899 zhane_buckley https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299392578 2018-11-01 14:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299392578 jamal_rodgers31 https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299394947 He talks about how the movement was movement for global peace just not African American in the United States. The bomb was a sign of racism to most African American across the board. It was interesting on the money spent on bomb making but not on the people living in the country. Seems that our priority’s were out of order.. ]]> 2018-11-01 14:43:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jcherisse2001/iejoru05emeh/wish/299394947