McKissick
Describes
Soul City
Floyd McKissick in a speech
in Dana Auditorium last Thursday night talked of a " bold new
experiment for the 70's"-Soul
City.
Expressing the need of "planning for people, not for profits," .
McKissick explained that Soul
City would be a new town "built
where we think it needs to be
built," in an economically depressed area in eastern North
Carolina.
McKissick said of Soul City,
built by a team of people of different nationalities and religions, "We don't have to integrate it because it has never
been segregated."
SOUL OF SOUL CITY
McKissick used the "soul of
Soul City" as the starting point
to "discuss and examine ourselves..., for analyzing the plight
of the nation, problems facing the
cities, and facing poor people.''
He listed aspects to be confronted in the 70's as the concept of nationalism ("neither
integration nor segregation"),
"the control of communities
where black people are forced to
live," "black competence," and
"performance rather than rhetoric."
Discussing the problems of
contemporary American cities,
McKissick said, "Some cities
are so infested, there is no
hope of saving them/' "America the beautiful is becoming
America the ugly."
OPPOSES BUSING
McKissick described busing to achieve school integration as an "imperfect solution
for an impossible problem."
(Continued on page 4)
Segregation in education--United States;Race relations
Topics
General perspectives on race relations
Place
Greensboro (N.C.)
Description
This February 16, 1970 article published in the Guilford College student newspaper, The Guilfordian, reports on a presentation by Floyd McKissick, former national director of the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), who spoke to students about his idea for developing a racially integrated community in North Carolina called "Soul City. "
Type
text
Original format
clippings
Original publisher
Greensboro, N.C. : Guilford College
Language
en
Contributing institution
Friends Historical Collection, Hege Library, Guilford College
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Object ID
GUI_GuilfordianCRG.1109
Digital publisher
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
McKissick
Describes
Soul City
Floyd McKissick in a speech
in Dana Auditorium last Thursday night talked of a " bold new
experiment for the 70's"-Soul
City.
Expressing the need of "planning for people, not for profits" .
McKissick explained that Soul
City would be a new town "built
where we think it needs to be
built" in an economically depressed area in eastern North
Carolina.
McKissick said of Soul City,
built by a team of people of different nationalities and religions, "We don't have to integrate it because it has never
been segregated."
SOUL OF SOUL CITY
McKissick used the "soul of
Soul City" as the starting point
to "discuss and examine ourselves..., for analyzing the plight
of the nation, problems facing the
cities, and facing poor people.''
He listed aspects to be confronted in the 70's as the concept of nationalism ("neither
integration nor segregation"),
"the control of communities
where black people are forced to
live" "black competence" and
"performance rather than rhetoric."
Discussing the problems of
contemporary American cities,
McKissick said, "Some cities
are so infested, there is no
hope of saving them/' "America the beautiful is becoming
America the ugly."
OPPOSES BUSING
McKissick described busing to achieve school integration as an "imperfect solution
for an impossible problem."
(Continued on page 4)
