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Floyd Bixler McKissick (March 9, 1922 – April 28, 1991) was an American lawyer and civil rights activist. He became the first African-American student at the University of North Carolina School of Law. In 1966 he became leader of CORE, the Congress of Racial Equality, taking over from James Farmer.
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Floyd Bixler McKissick Jr. (born November 21, 1952) is an American attorney who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate. He was appointed to the Senate by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2007 to replace the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas and was later elected and re-elected in his own right.
23. März 2008 · Learn about the life and achievements of Floyd B. McKissick, the second National Director of CORE who transformed the organization from non-violent to Black Power. He also founded Soul City, a racially integrated community in North Carolina, and served as a judge and a Nixon campaigner.
28. Apr. 1991 · Floyd McKissick was the national director of CORE from 1966 to 1968, when he advocated Black Power and nonviolence. He also challenged segregation in education and labor, created Soul City, and switched to the Republican Party.
30. Apr. 1991 · Floyd B. McKissick, an early leader of the civil rights movement who was named a state district judge in North Carolina last June, died Sunday at his home in Durham, N.C. He was 69 years old....
21. Apr. 2021 · Former civil rights lawyer-activist Floyd McKissick, poses with an architect's rendering of Soultech I, the first permanent building that will be part of the future "Soul City," to be built in...
While the Nixon administration did pay for Soul City, the policy intent conformed to Nye’s soft power agenda, since Republican national chairman George H. W. Bush impressed on McKissick that the party was doing so to make the GOP more politically palatable and open to black America.
