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Author Healy, Thomas, author.

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

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

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 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  975.652 HEA    Check Shelf
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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  975.652 HEALY    Check Shelf
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Edition First edition.
Description x, 434 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography 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.
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.
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.
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991. (OCoLC)fst01754122
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
City planning. (OCoLC)fst00862177
Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
Planned communities. (OCoLC)fst01065198
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
North Carolina. (OCoLC)fst01204304
North Carolina -- Soul City. (OCoLC)fst01229932
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Title Race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia
Other Form: Online version: Healy, Thomas. Soul city First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2021] 9781627798617 (DLC) 2020034253
ISBN 9781627798624 (hardcover)
1627798625 (hardcover)
9781627798617 (ebook)
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