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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.
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 mar 2008 · Floyd B. McKissick was a civil rights activist, lawyer, and politician who became the second national director of CORE in 1966. He advocated for Black Power and led a campaign to create Soul City, a racially integrated community in North Carolina.
21 apr 2021 · Floyd McKissick, one of the major leaders of the civil rights movement, had an audacious, lifelong dream. He wanted to build a city — from scratch — that would create economic opportunities ...
16 feb 2021 · But that’s what the civil-rights leader Floyd McKissick hoped to create when he arrived here in 1969 with dreams of transforming an old slave plantation into a new city an hour north of Raleigh.
- Thomas Healy
31 mar 2010 · 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.
29 gen 2021 · Floyd McKissick had a beautiful dream — and he almost pulled it off. In 1969, the civil rights activist, tired of seeing Black people shut out of politics and business, made a bold proposal: He...
