Portion of title |
Race, equality, and the lost dream of an American utopia |
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. |
Abstract |
"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. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [345]-414) and index. |
Issued in other form | Online version: Healy, Thomas. Soul city First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, [2021] 9781627798617 |
Genre/form | Biography. |
Genre/form | Biographies. |
Genre/form | History. |
Genre/form | Biographies. |
LCCN | 2020034252 |
ISBN | 9781627798624 hardcover |
ISBN | 1627798625 hardcover |
ISBN | electronic book |
Standard identifier# |
40030391818 |