Podcast: 99% Invisible (Episode 207)
A failed project for a city exclusively for African-Americans. Would that really help the racial divide?
A failed project for a city exclusively for African-Americans. Would that really help the racial divide?
As stated in the podcast's website: "In the late 1960s, a civil rights leader named Floyd B. McKissick, at one time the head of CORE (the Congress on Racial Equality) proposed an idea for a new town. He would call this town Soul City and it would be a place built for and by black people—a land of black opportunity in rural North Carolina."
More information:
Interesting article about Soul City in the Citylab
More information:
Interesting article about Soul City in the Citylab
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| Sign marking the entrance to Soul City (image: Tijuana Brass) |
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