SOCIAL SCIENCES

Southern Food and Civil Rights: Feeding the Revolution

by Frederick Douglass Opie

Arcadia. Jan. 2017. 192p. ISBN 9781467137386. pap. $21.99; ebk. ISBN 9781439659212. COOKING

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A look at the cuisine that fed the civil rights movement, from Paschal's Restaurant in Atlanta to Elijah Muhammad's food production efforts for the Nation of Islam to the "Sandwich Brigade" that organized meals for the thousands protesting in the 1963 March on Washington. Recipes included.

Reviewed by Molly McArdle , Jan 01, 2017

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