Marcia Chatelain on the women who made the March on Washington, in conversation with Claire Kelley

Marcia Chatelain is a Presidential Penn Compact Professor of Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of South Side Girls and Franchise, which won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in History, the James Beard Foundation Book Award for Writing, the Hagley Prize for Business History, and the Lawrence W. Levine Award from the Organization of American Historians. Her latest book is How Bright the Path Grows: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the March on Washington. 

Claire Kelley is a library specialist substitute at the Boulder Public Library, a contributor to Library Journal, and works in book publishing, currently at Seven Stories Press.