Soul City is a community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. It was a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick, [1] a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality.

2024年2月5日 · Soul City: A city built with the dream of equality and opportunity for the Black community is now a virtual ghost town, just an hour north of Raleigh.

2021年2月16日 · 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; a 1970s subdivision...

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.

2016年7月29日 · 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. FOR DECADES, Warren County, North Carolina was a site of extraction.

2024年2月28日 · After years fighting for racial justice, by the late 60's, Floyd McKissick had his biggest and craziest idea yet - A brand new town from the ground up, built on a dream of …

2021年7月27日 · In 2016, as I traveled with visual artist Torkwase Dyson through two other Black towns in North Carolina and Alabama, trying to understand why neither of them had sanitation infrastructure in the 21st century, I learned that Soul City was also a Black dream killed just as it was coming true.

Civil rights activist turned developer, Floyd B. McKissick, secured funding from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in 1972 to create Soul City as one of HUD’s 14 New Towns.

2021年3月26日 · In 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.

2021年5月5日 · Soul City barely got off the ground, and the reasons why—racism, paternalism, an ingrained reluctance of white institutions to invest in an endeavor by and for Black people—obstruct economic progress for racial minorities as thoroughly now as they did a …