2004. Soul City, however, ran into difficulties and the project never developed as McKissick had hoped. In June 1980, the Soul City Corporation and the federal government reached an agreement that allowed the government to assume control the following January. Under the agreement, the company retained 88 acres of the project, including the site of a mobile home park and a 60,000-square-foot building that had served as the project's headquarters. The Department of Housing & Urban Development paid off $10 million in loans and agreed to pay an additional $175,000 of the project's debts. In exchange, McKissick agreed to drop a lawsuit brought to block HUD from shutting down the project. Later life and death In June 1990, Floyd McKissick was appointed a state district court judge in the Ninth Judicial District in North Carolina, by Republican Governor James G. Martin. Less than a year after being appointed, while also working as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Soul City, McKissick died of lung cancer at the age 69 on Sunday April 28, 1991. He was buried in Soul City. He was survived by his wife, the former Evelyn Williams, whom he married in 1942; a son, Floyd McKissick, Jr; and three daughters, Joycelyn, Andree, and Charmaine. References External links Inventory of the Floyd B. McKissick Papers, 1940s-1980s, in the Southern Historical Collection, UNC-Chapel Hill Oral History Interviews with Floyd B. McKissick Sr. , from Oral Histories of the American South CORE History King Encyclopedia Harambee City: Archival site incorporating documents, maps, audio/visual materials related to CORE's work in black power and black economic development. North Carolina lawyers African-American judges American civil rights activists United States Army personnel of World War II North Carolina state court judges 1991 deaths 1922 births 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American judges United States Army soldiers People from Asheville, North Carolina 20th-century African-American people