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Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Healy, Thomas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
McKissick, Floyd B. > (Floyd Bixler), > 1922-1991.
Soul City (N.C.) > History.
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)

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