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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.
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 de mar. de 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.
21 de abr. de 2021 · In the late 1960s, a man named Floyd McKissick began building his dream: a brand-new community in rural North Carolina, on a plot of land a third of the size of Manhattan — complete with...
30 de abr. de 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...
28 de abr. de 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.
29 de jan. de 2021 · Author Thomas Healy chronicles how, in 1969, Floyd McKissick went about building a city from scratch, only to have his dreams dashed by a combination of prejudice and bureaucracy.
