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Author:

Healy, Thomas, author.

Title:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Metropolitan BooksHenry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Soul City (N.C.)--History.
McKissick, Floyd B.--(Floyd Bixler),--1922-1991.
Planned communities--North Carolina--History--20th century.
African Americans--History--North Carolina--History--20th century.
North Carolina--History--History--20th century.
City planning--United States--History--20th century.
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Biography.
Biographies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [407]-414) and index.

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.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1627798625
9781627798624

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1151091889

LCCN:

2020034252

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