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“The Once and Future Kings: A History of the Frustrating (and Futile) Search for the Next Martin Luther King, Jr.”

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Marcia Chatelain is Professor of History and African American Studies at Georgetown University. The author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (Duke University Press, 2015) she teaches about women’s and girls’ history, as well as black capitalism.  Her latest book, Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (Liveright Publishing Co./W.W. Norton, 2020) examines the intricate relationship among African American politicians, civil rights organizations, communities, and the fast food industry. Franchise was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History, the Organization of American Historians Lawrence Levine Award, and the Hurston/Wright Foundation’s Literary Legacy Award for Nonfiction.  

At Georgetown, she has won several teaching awards. In 2016, the Chronicle of Higher Education named her a Top Influencer in academia in recognition of her social media campaign #FergusonSyllabus, which implored educators to facilitate discussions about the crisis in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014. She has held an Eric and Wendy Schmidt Fellowship at New America, a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship, and an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship.