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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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 975.652 H434s Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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