Soul City : : Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
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Call Number: 975.652 He, Black Studies 975.652 He, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Politics / Healy, Thomas
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Malletts Creek Branch
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Adult Book / Nonfiction / Politics / Healy, Thomas | 4-week checkout | On Shelf |
Black Boy in a White Land -- Scrambled Egg -- Look Out Whitey -- Dreams Into Reality -- Welcome to 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 -- Sorrows Kitchen -- Epilogue: Mixed Blessings.
"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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
Year Published: 2021
Description: 434 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781627798624
1627798625
SUBJECTS
McKissick, Floyd B. -- 1922-1991.
Planned communities -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- History -- North Carolina -- 20th century.
City planning -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights worker -- North Carolina -- Biography.
Warren County (N.C.) -- Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) -- History.
North Carolina -- History -- 20th century.
North Carolina -- Soul City.