Word: mckissick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hide or anything to fear," said a spokesman for Soul City, N.C. His confident declaration was in answer to a recent call by two members of Congress for a Government audit and investigation of the federally assisted "new town." Developers of the community, led by former CORE Director Floyd McKissick, may indeed have nothing to hide-although critics question how some $5 million in federal funds have been used on the project. But Soul City, which now consists of a few roads, some mobile homes and a nearly completed industrial building on a 5,180-acre tract 50 miles from...
...Among the more controversial turns in thinking among some black leaders in recent years has been a new emphasis on advancement through "black capitalism." Two alumni of the Congress for Racial Equality. Roy Innis and Floyd McKissick, seek respectively to have blacks patronize black-owned stores only, and to create, with $14 million in federal funds, a "Soul City" capital in the Carolinas for black enterprise...
Crimson: What do you think of the attempts by Floyd McKissick in South Carolina to set up a haven for black capitalism...
...white businessmen, since whenever white businessmen can offer Negroes a better deal it's in the interest of Negroes to buy from them? The only way you can do it is by prohibiting the Negroes from dealing with white businessmen, and that's what people like Roy Innis--not McKissick as far as I know--propose. He proposes establishment of a "tariff" around the so-called Negro "community." To enforce it requires that you have a forcible rupture of intercourse...
...former chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Jewish Organizations; and David Luchins, who headed the 1972 Jewish Youth for Humphrey. Blacks have been the staunchest holdouts against Republican blandishments, but Nixon has been able to pick up the backing of Athlete-Actor Jim Brown, Singer James Brown, Floyd McKissick and Tuskegee Mayor Johnny Ford, who admits that he is supporting the President because he has been promised up to $4,000,000 in federal funds for his city...