Rachel Louise Martin

Rachel Louise Martin, PhD, is a historian and writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic and Oxford American , among other publications. The author of Hot, Hot Chicken , a cultural history of Nashville hot chicken, and A Most Tolerant Little Town , the forgotten story of the first school to attempt court-mandated desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board , she is especially interested by the politics of memory and the power of stories to illuminate why injustice persists in America today....See more

Rachel Louise Martin, PhD, is a historian and writer whose work has appeared in The Atlantic and Oxford American , among other publications. The author of Hot, Hot Chicken , a cultural history of Nashville hot chicken, and A Most Tolerant Little Town , the forgotten story of the first school to attempt court-mandated desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board , she is especially interested by the politics of memory and the power of stories to illuminate why injustice persists in America today. She lives in Nashville, Tennessee. See less