Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America

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Marcia Chatelain
W. W. Norton & Company

In Franchise Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast food companies, Black capitalists, and civil rights leaders who believed they had found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. The troubling story of an industry that blossomed just as the freedom movement began to wither.

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