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Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
- Title
- Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.
- Author
- Healy, Thomas
- Publication
- New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 434 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- 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"--
- Alternative Title
- Race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
- Subjects
- City planning
- African Americans > Civil rights
- Planned communities
- Civil rights workers
- History
- Biographies
- Biography
- 1900-1999
- United States
- North Carolina > Soul City
- North Carolina > Warren County
- Race relations
- McKissick, Floyd B (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991
- Warren County (N.C.) > Biography
- Civil rights workers > North Carolina > Biography
- City planning > United States > History > 20th century
- North Carolina > Race relations > History > 20th century
- African Americans > Civil rights > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Planned communities > North Carolina > History > 20th century
- Soul City (N.C.) > History
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 21-873
- ISBN
- 9781627798624
- 1627798625
- LCCN
- 2020034252
- OCLC
- 1151091889
- Author
- Healy, Thomas, author.
- Title
- Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia / Thomas Healy.
- Publisher
- New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Creator/Contributor Characteristics
- Gender group: MenNationality/regional group: AmericansOccupational/field of activity group: University and college faculty members
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-414) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 21-873