Civil-rights leader Floyd McKissick envisioned Soul City as a new, racially integrated community with jobs, housing, industry, and political power built from the ground up. Federal support ended before the ambitious plan was realized, leaving a scattered landscape of surviving buildings and infrastructure from one of America’s most unusual planned-community experiments.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: Atlas Obscura