"Loeb Reflects on Atomic Bombed Area,” read the headline in the Atlanta Daily World on Oct. 5, 1945, two months after Hiroshima’s ruin.
In the world of Black newspapers, that person's name alone was enough to attract readers.
Charles Loeb was a Black war correspondent whose articles in World War II were distributed to papers across the United States by the National Negro Publishers Association. In the article, Loeb told how bursts of deadly radiation had sickened and killed the city’s residents. His perspective, while coolly analytic, cast light on a major wartime cover-up.
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