Thursday, March 31Dr. Marcia Chatelain, Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University, opens the conference delivering the Letitia Woods Brown Memorial Lecture, “The Other Franchise Fight: Fast Food and Black Freedom from U Street to Capitol Hill.” Dr. Chatelain’s talk, based on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America, focuses on how DC’s fast food franchises reinvigorated campaigns to use Black capitalism as a tool for civil and economic rights. |