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Soul City Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia.
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalize
- No
- Signed
- No
- Ex Libris
- No
- Personalized
- No
- Original Language
- English
- Inscribed
- No
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Vintage
- No
- ISBN
- 9781250811264
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Holt & Company, Henry
ISBN-10
1250811260
ISBN-13
9781250811264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4050386015
Product Key Features
Book Title
Soul City : Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Civil Rights, Sociology / Urban
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, History
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
16.2 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Synopsis
In 1969, with America's cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, open to all but intended primarily to benefit Black people. Named Soul City, the community secured funding from the Nixon administration and an endorsement from the New York Times. Before long, the brand-new settlement-built on a former slave plantation-had roads, houses, a health-care center, and an industrial plant. But the utopian vision was not to be. Battered from the right by race-baiting senator Jesse Helms and from the left by the Raleigh News & Observer, Soul City was shut down after just a decade. Today it is a ghost town; its industrial plant, erected to promote Black economic freedom, has been converted into a prison. Was it an impossible dream from the beginning? Or a brilliant idea thwarted by prejudice and ignorance? And how might America be different today if Soul City had been allowed to succeed? Book jacket., "One of the greatest least-told stories in American history. . . . Healy does an excellent job recounting the details." --The New York Times Book Review In 1969, with America's inner cities in turmoil and racial tensions high, civil rights leader Floyd McKissick announced an audacious plan: he would build a new city in rural North Carolina, open to all races but intended primarily to benefit Black people. The idea attracted planning help from places like Harvard and MIT, interest from companies such as GM, and a loan guarantee from the federal government worth $86 million today. Soon, the brand-new community had roads, houses, a health care center, and an industrial plant. By the year 2000, projections said, Soul City would have 50,000 residents. But the utopian vision was not to be. The virulently racist Jesse Helms, newly elected as senator from North Carolina, swore to block any further government spending on the project. At the same time, the liberal Raleigh News & Observer , on the lookout for government malfeasance, ran a series of articles mistakenly claiming fraud and corruption in the construction effort. Battered from the left and the right, Soul City went bankrupt in 1979. Today, it is a ghost town--and its industrial plant, erected to promote Black economic freedom, has been converted into a prison. In a brilliantly vivid, gripping narrative, acclaimed author Thomas Healy resurrects this forgotten saga of race, capitalism, and the struggle for equality. Was it an impossible, misbegotten dream from the beginning? Or a brilliant idea thwarted by prejudice and bad timing? And how differently might history have turned out if Soul City had been allowed to succeed?
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