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SOUL CITY

Season 2 Episode 229 | 23m 27s

Soul City explores the rise, fall, and legacy of Soul City, North Carolina. Rich archival material, interviews with former and current Soul City residents, animations, and the soulful rhythms of the era bring alive the vision of its founder, Floyd B. McKissick, and his band of idealists who risked it all to build the city of their dreams with all the odds stacked against them.

Aired: 01/04/17
Support for Reel South is made possible by the ETV Endowment of South Carolina, National Endowment for the Arts, and Wyncote Foundation.
Extras
A Gullah Geechee family gathers in South Carolina’s Lowcountry to reflect on their heirs' property.
A retired Ukrainian finds art in 1970s Miami. Years later, a friend helps bring him fame.
During the Jim Crow crow era, Sister Clara Muhammad founded the first Muslim private school system.
Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South.
A member of Bluegrass 45 jams with Kobe University’s Bluegrass club.
Bluegrass 45 reunites with the tour van from their first US Tour.
In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth.
Ellie White visits an elementary school to lead students in an astronomy project.
When the NSF proposes a funding cut to an Observatory, residents passionately defend the project.
Sue is wracked with mystery symptoms. She soon finds the cause: electrohypersensitivity.
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Japanese bluegrass band Bluegrass 45 finds cultural unity through their music in the South.
In a quiet West Virginia town, a radio telescope searches for signs of life beyond Earth.
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After escaping Japan, an elderly man finds peace as a bamboo farmer in North Carolina.
A young woman is tapped to become the next chief of her tribe in southern Louisiana.
Five Black women take on the Klan in a landmark 1982 civil case for justice.
A Muslim-American family fights for justice after their loved ones are murdered in NC.
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A Black scientist in Arkansas guides farmers through agricultural challenges.