But in the 1970s, Soul City was built on the dream of equality and opportunity for Black families in North Carolina. Just an hour north of Raleigh you can find the remains of a grand dream.

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 ...

And when Jesse Helms was elected to the U.S. Senate from North Carolina, Helms told McKissick he would oppose the Soul City project. Audits of the town found no wrongdoing, but the damage was done ...

Even more don’t know the first free-standing community in our country was started right here in North Carolina ... is a daily reminder of the thriving city that Floyd McKissick Sr.

NORLINA, N.C. (WTVD) -- The legacy of Soul City lives on through people ... The town is now listed as Norlina, North Carolina, but some living there like Geraldine Winston,72, remember the good ...

‘Soul City’: Remains of planned utopia in rural North Carolina find new life over 50 years later The name was one issue. Timing was another. The year was 1974 and this project was located in ...

Floyd McKissick, right, and Governor Jim Holshouser, center, on their way to the groundbreaking celebration of Soul City in Warren County, North Carolina on Nov. 9, 1973. Dorothy Webb Henry Holt ...

Floyd McKissick, right, and Governor Jim Holshouser, center, on their way to the groundbreaking celebration of Soul City in Warren County, North Carolina on Nov. 9, 1973. Dorothy Webb Henry Holt ...

former executive director of the Soul City Foundation. There were also heavy hitting politicians who made it clear they did not support McKissick Sr. like the late North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms.