Marcia Chatelain’s Pulitzer-winning history of this company and the Black community notes how its franchisees helped popularize Martin Luther King Jr. Day. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this fast-food company that was the subject of the documentary Super Size Me.
ANSWER: McDonald’s [accept obvious variations like McD’s, Mickey D’s, etc.]
[10h] McDonald’s once sponsored a vacation contest themed around this popular 1977 production, whose characters included Chicken George.
ANSWER: Roots
[10m] Chatelain’s book details how Ernest Hilliard may have been murdered for trying to become one of the first Black franchisees in this city. Carl Stokes, this city’s first Black mayor, led the national press on a “pollution tour” after the Cuyahoga River caught on fire.
ANSWER: Cleveland
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