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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Healy, Thomas, author.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Healy, Thomas, author.       by title:      Soul City : race, eq...         MARC Display

Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy. by Healy, Thomas, author. New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021. 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. ISBN:  9781627798624 (hardcover) : 1627798625 (hardcover) : Description:  x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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"--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 975.652 He Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kaimuki Public Library Adult Nonfiction 975.652 He Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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