Please join Friends of the Truman Foundation for a special Speaking with Friends event featuring Dr. Marcia Chatelain (00 IL) and her new book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
After rave reviews from The New York Times and NPR, it was no surprise to see Georgetown professor Dr. Marcia Chatelain’s book events across the country packed to the gills. She’s now grounded from her book tour but hardly sitting still. We hope you’ll join us for a virtual salon, during which our author will discuss their work and take questions from the audience.
A professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University, Chatelain follows her study of Black girlhood in Great Migration Chicago, South Side Girls,with this groundbreaking history of the role of fast food restaurants in Black communities. Now blamed for numerous health issues, fast food in the late 1960s was seen as an economic answer to racial inequality. As federal programs in the Johnson and Nixon administrations de-emphasized social welfare, they promoted franchising as a way for Black citizens to improve the quality of life in their own neighborhoods. Drawing on extensive research, Chatelain traces the cooperation among fast food companies, civil rights leaders, and Black capitalists to bring about Black wealth.
You will receive the dial-in information when you RSVP for the event.
Please join Friends of the Truman Foundation for a special Speaking with Friends event featuring Dr. Marcia Chatelain (00 IL) and her new book Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.
After rave reviews from The New York Times and NPR, it was no surprise to see Georgetown professor Dr. Marcia Chatelain’s book events across the country packed to the gills. She’s now grounded from her book tour but hardly sitting still. We hope you’ll join us for a virtual salon, during which our author will discuss their work and take questions from the audience.
A professor of history and African American studies at Georgetown University, Chatelain follows her study of Black girlhood in Great Migration Chicago, South Side Girls,with this groundbreaking history of the role of fast food restaurants in Black communities. Now blamed for numerous health issues, fast food in the late 1960s was seen as an economic answer to racial inequality. As federal programs in the Johnson and Nixon administrations de-emphasized social welfare, they promoted franchising as a way for Black citizens to improve the quality of life in their own neighborhoods. Drawing on extensive research, Chatelain traces the cooperation among fast food companies, civil rights leaders, and Black capitalists to bring about Black wealth.
You will receive the dial-in information when you RSVP for the event.
