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Hutchins Lecture: Angela Jill Cooley on Fast Food and Civil Rights

Pleasants Family Assembly Room Wilson Library, 2nd Floor, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Golden Arches and White Spaces: Race in Early Fast Food Places By the late twentieth century, fast food restaurants became a common feature of American life. Although this innovation, which brought food production into the factory age, was not a … Read more

Chandler Lecture by Bryant Simon

University Room, Hyde Hall Hyde Hall, UNC- Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, United States

"The Hamlet Fire: Business, Politics, and Eating in the Age of Reagan" In September 1991, the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, North Carolina exploded in flames.  Twenty-five people lost their lives in the blaze; most were trapped inside the … Read more