by Thomas Healy
Sitton won the Pulitzer Prize: Richard Hart, “Sitton Wins Pulitzer for Commentary,” News & Observer (Raleigh, NC), April 19, 1983, 1.
By the time he retired … recovery of $2.4 million: James T. Hamilton, Democracy’s Detectives: The Economics of Investigative Journalism (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2016), 208–78.
When I interviewed … “I didn’t care”: Pat Stith interview with the author, August 26, 2019.
a hundred acres of former Soul City land: “1,300 Jobs, 85 Homes Forecast at Soul City by New Investors,” Durham Morning Herald, February 15, 1989; Minchin, “Brand New Shining City,”151–52.
a prison would provide jobs: Thurletta M. Brown, “Dissatisfaction Expressed By Some Over Proposed Location of Prison,” Warren Record, January 5, 1994.
$6.5 million in yearly revenue: Karen Brown interview with the author, October 15, 2015.
Voyette tells me … “what everyone’s looking for”: Voyette Perkins-Brown interview with the author, August 22, 2015.
“beautiful place to live”: Jane Ball-Groom interview with the author, August 22, 2015.
“it was a blessing”: Jane Ball-Groom interview with the author, June 3, 2014.
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MANUSCRIPT COLLECTIONS
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Floyd B. McKissick Papers #4930, Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the African American Resources Collection of North Carolina Central University.
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Daniel H. Pollitt Papers #5498, Southern Historical Collection, the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, US National Archives and Records Administration, Yorba Linda, CA.
North Carolina Collection, the Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Records of the New Community Development Corporation, Record Group 207.7.8, National Archives and Records Administration, College Park, MD.
Stanley S. Scott Papers, Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library, Ann Arbor, MI.
Jack Underhill Papers, Collection #C0134, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
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