Soul City
Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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 -- "Theory of the sugar tit" -- Black elephants -- Present at the creation -- Cream of the crop -- Blindsided -- The battle of Soul City -- Good place to live -- Pride or prejudice -- Maseratis and microwaves -- "Sorrow's kitchen" -- Epilogue : mixed blessings.
Subjects:
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Warren County (N.C.) -- Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights workers -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Warren County (N.C.) -- Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781627798624
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
HISTORY North Am. US NC Hea | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | Out (Due: 6/3/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-414) and index.