But how did fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods in the first place? In Franchise, acclaimed historian Marcia Chatelain uncovers a surprising history of cooperation among fast-food companies, black capitalists, and civil rights leaders, who-in the troubled years after King’s assassination-believed they found an economic answer to the problem of racial inequality. Levine Award, and was named one of the top books of 2020 by Smithsonian scholars. Often blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans, fast food restaurants like McDonald’s have long symbolized capitalism’s villainous effects on our nation’s most vulnerable communities.
Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America is the winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History, the winner of the Hagley Prize in Business History, the winner of the 2021 Organization of American Historians Lawrence W.
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