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In 1969, Floyd McKissick announced that he was building a new community dedicated to Black economic empowerment, located on the site of a former slave plantation in rural North Carolina.
Soul City would be open to residents of all races but designed to help Black residents through a combination of cultural uplift, jobs, and egalitarian social policies.
Far from a quixotic vision or separatist fantasy, Soul City attracted interest from across the political spectrum: McKissick secured $14 million in federal urban renewal funding to bankroll the project, thanks in part to his assiduous courting of the Nixon administration. Indeed, the question that lingers around Soul City is not why it failed, but how it came so close to becoming reality.
The time was ripe... McKissick pitched Soul City as the solution to a range of issues grouped under the heading of postwar “urban crisis.”
By the late 1960s, conditions in the nation’s cities were reaching breaking point.
The influx of dollars provided for federal urban renewal did little to stem either white flight to the suburbs (subsidized by federal mortgage programs) or the marginalization of Black communities in what would be deemed the “inner city.”
Designed as a partial solution to urban ills, President Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 New Communities Act provided federal support for the establishment of new towns.
While the federal government imagined these communities as white, McKissick saw an opening.
Soul City would address urban deprivation by reversing decades of out-migration from the rural South. And it would embody the self-sufficiency prized by the new face of the civil rights movement—Black Power.
More on the story here! #Echobox=1616014145"> https://newrepublic.com/article/161745/lost-plan-black-utopian-town?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR2NGtXEyHnQ2oC-_OmxLZRtbidvuePuTpycpqVipT0zapbKGoafJ4FbGuw #Echobox=1616014145
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In 1969, Floyd McKissick announced that he was building a new community dedicated to Black economic empowerment, located on the site of a former slave plantation in rural North Carolina.
Soul City would be open to residents of all races but designed to help Black residents through a combination of cultural uplift, jobs, and egalitarian social policies.
Far from a quixotic vision or separatist fantasy, Soul City attracted interest from across the political spectrum: McKissick secured $14 million in federal urban renewal funding to bankroll the project, thanks in part to his assiduous courting of the Nixon administration. Indeed, the question that lingers around Soul City is not why it failed, but how it came so close to becoming reality.
The time was ripe... McKissick pitched Soul City as the solution to a range of issues grouped under the heading of postwar “urban crisis.”
By the late 1960s, conditions in the nation’s cities were reaching breaking point.
The influx of dollars provided for federal urban renewal did little to stem either white flight to the suburbs (subsidized by federal mortgage programs) or the marginalization of Black communities in what would be deemed the “inner city.”
Designed as a partial solution to urban ills, President Lyndon Johnson’s 1968 New Communities Act provided federal support for the establishment of new towns.
While the federal government imagined these communities as white, McKissick saw an opening.
Soul City would address urban deprivation by reversing decades of out-migration from the rural South. And it would embody the self-sufficiency prized by the new face of the civil rights movement—Black Power.
More on the story here! #Echobox=1616014145"> https://newrepublic.com/article/161745/lost-plan-black-utopian-town?utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=EB_TNR&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=IwAR2NGtXEyHnQ2oC-_OmxLZRtbidvuePuTpycpqVipT0zapbKGoafJ4FbGuw #Echobox=1616014145
IF YOU ARE TIRED OF TALKING ABOUT SELF SUSTAINABILITY AND READY TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT 🤔
JOIN AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROJECT... https://www.blaqsbi.com/2rMr-Post-How-To-Join-An-Ubuntu-Town-Blaqsbi-Citi-Huddle
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