Floyd McKissick

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  2/16/2021
  

  How White Liberals Destroyed the 1970s’ Soul City

  by Brentin Mock

  The new book "Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia," by Seton Hall Law School professor Thomas Healy, explores the history of how and why Floyd McKissick’s experiment came to be, and its unceremonious end. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  2/1/2021
  

  The Plan to Build a Capital for Black Capitalism

  Thomas Healy's book "Soul City" looks at a short-lived experiment to create a capital city for Black capitalism in America, part of a long series of political debates about whether the pursuit of economic power by Black Americans would overcome racism.