African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement

Date: 

Monday, April 20, 2015, 6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Sever Hall 113
Vincent Intondi, Professor of History at Montgomery University and Director of Research for American University's Nuclear Studies Institute, will present his new book African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement. His work discusses the implications of black participation in the anti-nuclear weapons and anti-colonialist movement during the height of the Cold War. Intondi's talk is part of the Andrew W. Mellon Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence hosted by the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University.More information can be found here.