Franchise: Author Talk with Dr. Marcia Chatelain

Register today to participate in a live author event.  Join us in conversation with Dr. Marcia Chatelain as she discusses her Pulitzer prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.

Dr. Marcia Chatelain set out to answer the question of how fast-food restaurants so thoroughly saturate black neighborhoods. McDonald’s has often been blamed for the rising rates of obesity and diabetes among black Americans. In Franchise, 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.

This event is facilitated as part of the Library Speakers Consortium, and additional book copies are available at the library.

Register: https://libraryc.org/bethlehempubliclibrary/17455/register (Use Bethlehem Public Library as your library system.)