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Healy, Thomas.
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McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Healy, Thomas.
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Soul
City
:
race
,
equality
, and the
lost
dream
of an
American
utopia
/ Thomas Healy.
by
Healy, Thomas.
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Call #:
975.652 H434s
Subjects
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
Blacks -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
City
planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Soul
City
(N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina --
Race
relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781627798624 (hc)
Alternate title:
Race
,
equality
, and the
lost
dream
of an
American
utopia
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 434 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [345]-414) and index.
Summary:
"In 1969, with America’s cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new
city
in rural North Carolina, open to all but intended primarily to benefit Black people. Named
Soul
City
, the community secured funding from the Nixon administration, planning help from Harvard and the University of North Carolina, and endorsements from the New York Times and the Today show. Before long, the brand-new settlement -- built on a former slave plantation -- had roads, houses, a health care center, and an industrial plant. By the year 2000, projections said,
Soul
City
would have fifty thousand residents. But the utopian vision was not to be. The race-baiting Jesse Helms, newly elected as senator from North Carolina, swore to stop government spending on the project. Meanwhile, the liberal Raleigh News & Observer mistakenly claimed fraud and corruption in the construction effort. Battered from the left and the right,
Soul
City
was shut down after just a decade. Today, it is a ghost town – and its industrial plant, erected to promote Black economic freedom, has been converted into a prison. Was it an impossible
dream
from the beginning? Or a brilliant idea thwarted by prejudice and ignorance? And how might America be different today if
Soul
City
had been allowed to succeed?"--Publisher.
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