WARREN COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — Building a brand-new community from the ground up is no small feat, but it almost happened right here in North Carolina. The purpose of the new city was to create ...

But that’s what the civil-rights leader Floyd McKissick hoped to create when he arrived here in 1969 with dreams of transforming an old slave plantation into a new city an hour north of Raleigh.

Civil rights leaders including Floyd McKissick, second from left, at the White House with President John Kennedy in 1963. McKissick led the Congress of Racial Equality and later founded Soul City.

Soul City: A Utopia For Black Capitalism : Code Switch Floyd McKissick, one of the major leaders of the civil rights movement, had an audacious, lifelong dream. He wanted to build a city — from ...

“The first city in the world that’s built around your family. Before we laid a brick, we laid plans for a clean, uncongested city of 40,000 on 3,500 acres of beautiful land in Warren County, N.C.

The Soul City experiment initiated by civil rights leader Floyd McKissick in the 1970s to right racial urban ills ended in disappointment. It did not become the “spearhead of racial equality ...

The Soul City infrastructure put in place during the 1970s still serves Warren and neighboring counties, Contrary to news reports, the project made good use of its government support.

In this 1974 file photo, former civil rights lawyer-activist Floyd McKissick, right, talks to grade foreman A.T. Ayscue, in the empty fields where the future “Soul City” was to be built in ...

‘Soul City’: Civil rights leader tried to create rural utopia in North Carolina over 50 years ago by: Jordan Brown. Posted: Oct 1, 2024 / 06:30 PM EDT. Updated: Oct 2, 2024 / 03:02 PM EDT.