Main entry:

Healy, Thomas, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.
©2021

Description:

x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-414) and index.
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.
Dust jacket.

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:

9781627798624 hardcover
1627798625 hardcover
electronic book
9781627798617
9781250811264 paperback
1250811260 paperback

Subject:

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.
Collectivités nouvelles Caroline du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.
Noirs américains Droits Caroline du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme Caroline du Nord Biographies.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
African Americans Civil rights.
City planning.
Civil rights workers.
Planned communities.
Race relations.
City planning United States.
Civil rights workers Biography.
Soul City (N.C.) History.
North Carolina Race relations History 20th century.
Warren County (N.C.) Biography.
Caroline du Nord Relations raciales Histoire 20e siècle.
North Carolina Warren County.
North Carolina.
North Carolina Soul City.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309442
Call No.: BIB 254696
Status: Available