Buxton
work and racial equality in a coal mining community
by Dorothy Schwieder, Dorothy Schweider, Joseph Hraba, and Elmer Schwieder
"From 1900 to the early 1920s, an unusual community existed in America's heartland: Buxton, Iowa, established by the Consolidation Coal Company. The majority of Buxton's five thousand residents were African Americans - a highly unusual racial composition for a state which was over 90 percent white. At a time when both southern and northern blacks were disadvantaged and oppressed, blacks in Buxton enjoyed true racial integration - steady employment, above-average wages, decent housing and minimal discrimination. For such reasons, Buxton was commonly known as 'the black man's utopia in Iowa.' Now, eighty years after the town's demise, this truly interdisciplinary history of a unique Iowa community remains a compelling story."--Jacket.
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Social conditions, Race relations, Coal miners, American studies, Black studies, History of specific racial & ethnic groups, Social History, 20th century, First World War, 1914-1918, c 1900 - c 1914, History, Buxton (Iowa), United States - 20th Century, Sociology, History: American, Iowa, Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor, United States - State & Local - Midwest, History / Social History, Buxton, Iowa, history, local, Coal mines and mining, Iowa, social conditions, United states, ethnic relationsPlaces
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Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, an Expanded Edition
2003, University of Iowa Press
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Buxton: A Black Utopia in the Heartland, An Expanded Edition (Bur Oak Book)
September 3, 2003, University Of Iowa Press
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Buxton: a Black utopia in the heartland
2003, University of Iowa Press
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Buxton: Work and Racial Equality in a Coal Mining Community
June 30, 1987, Iowa State Press
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Buxton: work and racial equality in a coal mining community
1987, Iowa State University Press
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Bibliography: p. 241-246.
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