Soul City, North Carolina | |
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 Soul City sign at the entrance to Green Duke Village | |
  Soul City  Soul City | |
| Coordinates: 36°24′31″N 78°16′13″W / 36.40861°N 78.27028°W | |
| Country |  United States |
| State |  North Carolina |
| County | Warren County |
| Established | 1969 |
| ZIP code | 27563 |
Soul City is a community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States. It was a planned community first proposed in 1969 by Floyd McKissick,[1] a civil rights leader and director of the Congress of Racial Equality. Funded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, Soul City was one of thirteen model city projects under the Urban Growth and New Community Development Act. It was located on 5,000 acres (20 km2) in Warren County near Manson-Axtell Road and Soul City Boulevard in Norlina.[2]
- ^ "North Carolina History Project : Soul City". Northcarolinahistory.org. Retrieved November 10, 2015.
- ^ Healy, Thomas. Soul City: Race, Equality, and the Lost Dream of an American Utopia. Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Macmillan Publishers. ISBN 9781627798624.