In 'Soul City,' One Man Envisions A Place Where Black People Have Power, Opportunity
Author Thomas Healy chronicles how, in 1969, Floyd McKissick went about building a city from scratch, only to have his dreams dashed by a combination of prejudice and bureaucracy.
Floyd McKissick had a beautiful dream â and he almost pulled it off.
In 1969, the civil rights activist, tired of seeing Black people shut out of politics and business, made a bold proposal: He wanted to found a new city, one where Black people would have power and opportunity. As Thomas Healy writes in his new book, , the town would be "a model of Black economic empowerment, bringing money and jobs to a region that had been left behind by
