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Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia Cover Image Book Book
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Soul City : race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia

Healy, Thomas (author.).

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"--

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  • ISBN: 1250811260
  • ISBN: 9781250811264
  • ISBN: 1627798625
  • ISBN: 9781627798624
  • Physical Description: x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2021.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-414) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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

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  • 8 of 9 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

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  • 1 current hold with 9 total copies.
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Albright Memorial Library 975.652 HEALY (Text) 50686015686962 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library 975.652 HEA (Text) 33240005141828 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Martin Library Adults 975.6 HEA Life Times (Text) 33454005871645 2nd Floor Available -
Parkland Community Library 975.652 HEA (Text) 34422007196575 Adult Nonfiction Available -
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Easton Main Library 975.652 H434s (Text) 31901004481844 New Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 12/08/2021
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