The Intertwined History of McDonald’s and Black America

In good ways and bad, the Golden Arches have always loomed large in the African American experience

Marcia Chatelain
GEN
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7 min readJan 6, 2020

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“Hands up . . .”

“Don’t shoot!”

Across the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, protesters and mourners shouted the call-and-response dirge in memory of Michael…

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Marcia Chatelain
GEN
Writer for

Associate professor of history at Georgetown and the author of Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright).