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Race plays a key role in this story because in those areas closest to the McDonald’s I went to have a meal at, it is inhabited mostly by Black people, who are living in poverty. Their faces appear in news stories and in studies documenting who are the poorest people in Memphis. This stark reality has been evident and present since the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s economic justice work took place in the city of Memphis in the late 1960s.
Three Hungry Youth at McDonald’s: A Memphis Poverty And Economics Story
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