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Bookmark or Share- The True Story of 'Soul City,' a Utopian Town Built for ...Soul City still exists today in North Carolina, right near the Virginia border, but it never became the racial Xanadu McKissick sold it as. A number of problems contributed to its failures,...
- Soul City - North Carolina HistoryWritten By Will Schultz. Soul City was a failed attempt to build a majority black community in the heart of rural North Carolina. Conceived by civil rights leader Floyd B. McKissick, Soul City began with high expectations but ended in disappointment.
- Inside Soul City, North Carolina's Short-Lived Black UtopiaPublished July 29, 2016. Updated August 1, 2019. In the 1960s, Floyd McKissick laid out a plan for a utopian, black-managed town in the American South that he called Soul City. Here's how it happened -- and what became of it. Monica Berra/Vimeo. FOR DECADES, Warren County, North Carolina was a site of extraction.
- Revisiting the Black power dream of North Carolina's Soul CityIn rural eastern North Carolina's Warren County, at the site of a former slave plantation about 60 miles northeast of Durham, McKissick envisioned the community he called Soul City. McKissick worked quickly to put his plan into action.
- The Lost Dream of Soul City - The AtlanticFebruary 16, 2021. Visit Soul City, North Carolina, today, and you won’t find much: an abandoned health-care clinic stripped by vandals; a pool and recreation center with a no trespassing sign;...
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