text Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
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"A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
- Contents
- Prologue : "comes the colored hour" -- "Black boy in a white land" -- Scrambled Egg -- "Look out, whitey!" -- Dreams into reality -- Klan country -- "Integration Blackwards" -- Green power -- A fresh start -- "The salad pickers" -- Naming rights -... Read more
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- Description
- 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Publisher
- Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 975.6 HEA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
| Library | Location | Status |
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| TADL-WOOD | 975.6 HEA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
Soul City (N.C.) History
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler) 1922-1991
Planned communities North Carolina History 20th century
African Americans Civil rights North Carolina History 20th century
North Carolina Race relations History 20th century
City planning United States History 20th century
Civil rights workers North Carolina Biography
Warren County (N.C.) Biography
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler) 1922-1991
African Americans Civil rights
City planning
Civil rights workers
Planned communities
Race relations
North Carolina
North Carolina Soul City
United States
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| Library | Location | Status |
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| Woodmere (Main Branch) | 975.6 HEA in Adult Non-fiction | Available |
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